Is Outlook Down? Widespread Outage Hits Microsoft Apps [12 Nov 26, 10:21pm] Thousands also reported issues with Microsoft's workplace messaging app Teams, as well as its AI assistant Copilot and wider Microsoft 365 services.
US Envoys Meet Zelensky After Putin Signals No Compromise [12 Nov 26, 10:06pm] Washington's envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, were in Moscow after two days of talks in Abu Dhabi on ending Europe's worst conflict since World War II.
What We Know After Jensen Huang Resigns As Nvidia's CEO [12 Nov 26, 7:07pm] Huang co-founded Nvidia, alongside Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, back in 1993 — and, up until Thursday, had led the company ever since, with no clear successor in sight.
Alice Huang tied to Nvidia’s biggest Chinese competitor [12 Nov 26, 10:47pm] The woman with whom Jensen Huang reportedly had a relationship also owned stakes in companies that provided computing power to Huawei, a key Nvidia competitor.
The Secrets API in WordPress 7.2 [11 Nov 26, 9:25pm] WordPress 7.2 adds the Secrets API, which stores credentials such as API keys and OAuth client secrets encrypted, with one previous version kept for rotation. The original design is in the proposal and the history is on Trac #66187. If you tested an…
Editor: The Options and View menus now use the new Menu component [11 Nov 26, 2:52pm] WordPress 7.2 updates two menus in the editor header, Options (the “⋮” button) and View, to use the new Menu component from @wordpress/ui. The change applies to both the post and site editors. The new menus have better keyboard navigation, proper che…
Dev Chat Agenda – November 11, 2026 [11 Nov 26, 4:15am] 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…
New Block Support in WordPress 7.2: Text Shadow (textShadow) [11 Nov 26, 1:36am] WordPress 7.2 introduces a new textShadow typography block support, along with text shadow presets and a user interface in both the block inspector and Global Styles. The Paragraph and Heading blocks are the first core blocks to adopt it. GitHub issu…
Editor components updates in WordPress 7.2 [10 Nov 26, 3:48pm] Migration from Emotion to SCSS Modules WordPress 7.2 completes the migration from Emotion to SCSS Modules in @wordpress/components, continuing the work described in the WordPress 7.1 dev note. This removes the package’s remaining Emotion dependencies…
Galaxy SmartTag 3 at $20 makes a compelling case to skip the Google Pixel Tag [12 Nov 26, 10:05pm] Barely a week after its launch, Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag 3 is already on sale for as little as $20, making it a fairly compelling alternative to Google’s new Pixel Tag, assuming you have a Galaxy phone, of course. more…
Today’s Android app deals and freebies: Agent A, Swim Out, The Mutiny, more [12 Nov 26, 7:48pm] The early Black Friday sales are now live at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, and so are today’s best Google Play app and game deals: Agent A: A puzzle in disguise, Swim Out, Potion Permit, Burst Busters: Action Survival, The Mutiny, Stop Santa: Tower…
Microsoft 365 Outage Disrupts Outlook, Exchange Online and Teams [12 Nov 26, 8:55pm] Microsoft says failed server health checks disrupted Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services. The company is still investigating the cause and has disclosed no evidence of a cyberattack.The post Microsoft 365 Outage Disrupts Outlook, Exchange Onlin…
Apache Patches Critical HTTP Server RCE Found by Anthropic, Google [12 Nov 26, 3:38pm] The mod_http2 race condition, CVE-2026-119618, could let unauthenticated attackers execute code on servers with HTTP/2 enabled.The post Apache Patches Critical HTTP Server RCE Found by Anthropic, Google appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Over 180 Vulnerabilities [12 Nov 26, 1:42pm] Google fixed 83 flaws with a new Chrome 157 release, and Mozilla addressed 99 bugs in Firefox 160.The post Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Over 180 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Attacker Targets 60,000 GitHub Repositories in Credential Theft Campaign [12 Nov 26, 1:39pm] Using thousands of hijacked accounts, the wfx-loot campaign planted a CI secret stealer that ran in over 1,800 GitHub repositories.The post Attacker Targets 60,000 GitHub Repositories in Credential Theft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Daylight Lands $80 Million for AI-Powered Security Operations [12 Nov 26, 1:12pm] The company plans to accelerate product development, hire new talent, expand its US presence, and enter new markets.The post Daylight Lands $80 Million for AI-Powered Security Operations appeared first on SecurityWeek.
US facing extreme power transmission crisis, experts warn [12 Nov 26, 10:20pm] As electricity demand surges across the United States due to the electrification of transportation and heavy industry and the rapid expansion of data centers, the nation's aging power grid is failing to keep pace.
AI system can reconstruct aerodynamic shapes and predict their performance [12 Nov 26, 9:20pm] The efficiency of an aircraft wing or a wind turbine blade depends on how air flows around it. Finding an optimal shape involves testing numerous designs and can be a burdensome and time-consuming process. Now, researchers at Kyushu University have d…
AI improves cosmic particle scans to locate hidden objects more accurately in simulations [12 Nov 26, 8:00pm] Researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science are working with the Estonian technology company GScan to develop AI-based methods that use measurement data collected with the help of cosmic particles to locate objects more accur…
Five things to know about Nvidia [12 Nov 26, 7:40pm] After launching as a small gaming startup and morphing into the top chip designer for artificial intelligence, U.S. tech giant Nvidia faces unprecedented turbulence after its co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang reportedly had a second extramarital affair…
10 Ways To Make Your Noisy Laptop Quieter [12 Nov 26, 9:30pm] If your laptop fan goes full jet engine during a simple Zoom call, there's a decent chance the fix is hiding in settings you've never touched.
3 Drawbacks Of Using Inverter Generators [12 Nov 26, 8:45pm] While inverter generators tend to be small, relatively quiet, and efficient when compared to other types, they do come with their own set of drawbacks.
Juraj Ďuriš Paints “Dialóg” Beside Ústí nad Labem’s Main Station [8 Nov 26, 12:12pm] Juraj Ďuriš has painted Dialóg on the end wall of a railway building beside Ústí nad Labem’s main station. The large mural places a figurative work along one of the Czech city’s busiest approaches, where it can be seen from passing trains as well as…
Millo Paints “The Most Precious Treasure” Beside Alcantarilla’s Future Railway Station [7 Nov 26, 9:11pm] Millo has completed The Most Precious Treasure (El tesoro más valioso) in Alcantarilla, Murcia. In the mural, his characters open a chest and find clear water instead of gold or jewels. The work stands alongside murals by JDL and Rocket01, facing the…
Ratur Paints “Anchored” for Appartengo in Stigliano [7 Nov 26, 6:11pm] Ratur painted “Anchored,” an acrylic work on concrete, for the 2026 Appartengo public-art festival in Stigliano, Italy. The French artist, also known as Arthur Maslard, made it during the festival’s October programme of artist residencies and new wor…
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…
Inside the Nocturnal Worlds of Tyler Vouros [12 Nov 26, 10:22pm] Raised in a log home in a town without a stoplight, Vouros reveals the flora and fauna he has known since childhood in through his meticulous charcoal drawings.The post Inside the Nocturnal Worlds of Tyler Vouros appeared first on Artnet News.
Artnet Airwaves Is Bringing the Art World’s Biggest Conversations to Miami Beach [12 Nov 26, 8:44pm] The art world has plenty to talk about. A new live podcast festival at Untitled Art brings five art-world shows together to keep the dialog going.The post Artnet Airwaves Is Bringing the Art World’s Biggest Conversations to Miami Beach appeared firs…
The Stats Behind New York’s $2B Auction Week [12 Nov 26, 6:04pm] Here's how Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips stack up.The post The Stats Behind New York’s $2B Auction Week appeared first on Artnet News.
Prized Frank Frazetta Painting Heads to Auction With $6M Opening Bid [12 Nov 26, 3:00pm] The fantasy art masterpiece is hitting the auction block at Joopiter, with a high-profile showing during Art Basel Miami Beach.The post Prized Frank Frazetta Painting Heads to Auction With $6M Opening Bid appeared first on Artnet News.
Jenny Holzer Is Taking Over Times Square for World AIDS Day [12 Nov 26, 3:00pm] Plus, Marina Abramović debuts a life-size bronze donkey, a windfall for the Chateau de Chantilly, and other art world matters.The post Jenny Holzer Is Taking Over Times Square for World AIDS Day appeared first on Artnet News.
Creating Diagrams and Graphs Using Modern CSS [11 Nov 26, 2:19pm] The final part of the connectors series: dynamic connections that pick the closest sides, static connections that always leave from the same edge, and some bendy, zig-zag, and spring connectors, all built with anchor positioning, border-shape, shape(…
My Interop 2027 Picks [10 Nov 26, 12:55pm] What web platform features are we all wishing for perfect cross-browser interoperability next year?
TanStack AI’s Sandbox API [9 Nov 26, 12:56pm] Part 3 of this intro to TanStack AI covers the Sandbox API: spinning up a remote sandbox on Vercel or Railway, running Claude Code inside it with GitHub access, and having it clone your repo, add a feature, and open a pull request.
true or false in CSS [6 Nov 26, 1:38pm] CSS doesn’t have a boolean type, but it does have the true and false keywords. Register a custom property that only accepts them, flip it with :has(), and container style queries turn messy :checked selector combinations into readable conditions.
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.
Early Black Friday discount knocks the Arlo Essential Security Camera HD to just $10 [12 Nov 26, 9:45pm] Arlo security cameras are usually a premium purchase, often costing upwards of $100 or more for a single unit. That's why seeing the Arlo Essential Security Camera HD drop to just $10 on Amazon is such a shock. At $10, the barrier to entry is virtual…
Customer support is the gnarliest AI problem [10 Nov 26, 8:40am] Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous evaluations helps engineers balance latency against accuracy, and the ways…
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.
Fishing Tender Goes Down off Thailand, Leaving Six Missing [12 Nov 26, 10:30pm] A fishing tender has gone down off the coast of Sattahip, Thailand, leaving six crewmembers missing, according to local authorities. The tender Venus...
Yoshitomo Nara’s Beloved Characters Come to Life in Major New York Exhibition [11 Nov 26, 8:20pm] Yoshitomo Nara’s Beloved Characters Come to Life in Major New York ExhibitionJapanese artist Yoshitomo Nara is bringing his instantly recognizable characters back to New York with a major exhibition at David Zwirner. Spanning two of the gallery’s Ch…
Portable Device Tracks and Eliminates Mosquitoes With AI-Powered Cameras and Lasers [11 Nov 26, 6:30pm] Portable Device Tracks and Eliminates Mosquitoes With AI-Powered Cameras and LasersMosquitos may be small, but they are one of the biggest annoyances out there. Many scientists and developers have devoted years to research ways to get rid of the ann…
Eye-Opening Finalists of the 2026 Close-up Photographer of the Year Contest [11 Nov 26, 3:45pm] Eye-Opening Finalists of the 2026 Close-up Photographer of the Year ContestThere’s a lot of wonder to see in the world if you just look closely. One photo contest celebrates the smaller things in nature you might miss at first glance. Called Close-u…
The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline [12 Nov 26, 9:35pm] Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
Build once, run on any agent: A practical guide to agent skills [12 Nov 26, 10:54pm] Agent skills capture repeatable engineering work in files teams can review and reuse, while tools, project context, and permissions remain specific to the host that runs them.The post Build once, run on any agent: A practical guide to agent skills a…
Git security vulnerabilities announced [10 Nov 26, 6:00pm] Git is releasing updates addressing six security vulnerabilities affecting recursive clones, reference handling, merges, binary patches, and imports. Here is what users need to know.The post Git security vulnerabilities announced appeared first on T…
Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering [6 Nov 26, 10:15pm] Writing code got faster. The work around it didn't. See how you can plan, write code, review changes, and investigate production issues with GitHub Copilot, and what work still needs your judgment.The post Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide…
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…
Google Ads Rolls Out New Invalid Traffic Overview Card via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson [12 Nov 26, 9:01pm] Google Ads introduces an Invalid Traffic Overview Card showing estimated savings, post-billing credits, and campaign-level reports. Here's what advertisers need to know.The post Google Ads Rolls Out New Invalid Traffic Overview Card appeared first o…
Visits To The Top Million Websites Fell 12%, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [12 Nov 26, 6:43pm] Data shows visits to the world's top million websites declined from an earlier peak, visits going to sites outside the top 100 barely changed.The post Visits To The Top Million Websites Fell 12%, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Save $119 on DDR5 RAM with this high-end AM5 gaming combo from Newegg [12 Nov 26, 5:34pm] Newegg's latest combo deal pairs 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a MSI X870E Carbon Wifi motherboard and a free Rosewill Frostmax 360mm AIO for only $1,250, a savings of $119.
Amazon releases AWS Emulator to allows its services to run locally [12 Nov 26, 5:14pm] Amazon has released AWS Emulator, a local emulator of AWS services, written entirely by autonomous agents, for building and testing AWS applications. One of the keys in having agents create the emulator, without humans writing or reviewing the code,…
Why So Many AI Prototypes Never Make It Past the Database [12 Nov 26, 4:33pm] Originally, I began using PostgreSQL around 1997 at a UK social housing provider where I was head of IT. We chose Postgres (which at the time was version 6.3.2) so that tenants could see their rent accounts online without per-user licensing costs for…
AI-Assisted Mainframe Modernization: Progress Does Not Mean Production-Ready [11 Nov 26, 8:50pm] If you ask most companies where they are on their mainframe modernization journey, they will tell you that they are “about 80 percent converted.” They’ll tell you that the dashboards are green, the new Java compiles, and the tests are passing. Howeve…
Google releases A2UI 1.0 for generative UI [11 Nov 26, 5:46pm] Google today has released A2UI 1.0, what it is calling the first stable version of its open protocol for generative UI. Human-agent work today involves either written prompts or texts and speech on the human side, and a huge amount of text is returne…
Databricks Launches New Always-on Genie: Autonomous AI for Complex Enterprise Work [11 Nov 26, 5:27pm] SAN FRANCISCO — Databricks today announced the second generation of Genie, which changes how people get work done: Genie is now an always-on, autonomous agent for enterprise work. Employees can give Genie a goal and trust it to keep work moving. Geni…
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…
Plant sensing mechanism guards against pests [12 Nov 26, 11:20pm] A new study has identified a previously unknown mechanism by which plants sense insect attack and activate defense responses.
Matter–antimatter asymmetry still provides no evidence of new physics [12 Nov 26, 11:00pm] The universe's dominance by ordinary matter is compelling evidence that matter and antimatter are not perfect reflections of each other. However, known differences do not explain the scale of this imbalance, leaving open the possibility that unknown…
A Tool Built By Election Deniers Said These Voters Were Dead. We Found Them Alive. [12 Nov 26, 10:23pm] This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Ahead of the midterms, conservative election activists discussed plans to wield a powerful new weapon in the war against fraud: a data tool built by one o…
Daily Deal: The Windows PowerShell Bundle [12 Nov 26, 6:48pm] The Windows PowerShell Bundle is designed to help you master PowerShell scripting, automation, and task management. Courses cover PowerShell basics and command syntax, Active Directory lab set-up, remote administration, error handling, and more. It’s…
marlot meyer’s giant inflatable creatures breathe with the tides of the wadden sea [12 Nov 26, 9:35pm] inspired by microscopic algae, these breathing sculptures translate tidal movements into an interactive experience.The post marlot meyer’s giant inflatable creatures breathe with the tides of the wadden sea appeared first on designboom | architectur…
inside the mercedes-benz SLR mclaren stirling moss, a supercar built without a windshield [12 Nov 26, 7:10pm] with an elongated hood and no windshield, the speedster revisits the dramatic proportions of 1950s racing cars.The post inside the mercedes-benz SLR mclaren stirling moss, a supercar built without a windshield appeared first on designboom | architec…
vincent leroy installs kinetic cloud wireframe in morocco’s desert [12 Nov 26, 4:45pm] building upon previous molecular cloud series, the project transforms the cloud-like volume into an open metal lattice, where lines and voids become inseparable.The post vincent leroy installs kinetic cloud wireframe in morocco’s desert appeared fir…
built99 positions india’s contextual intelligence on the global stage [12 Nov 26, 11:00am] built99 introduces an annual selection of 99 nominated studios. backed by designboom and archdaily, the initiative champions low-impact construction, regional craft, and deep contextual intelligence.The post built99 positions india’s contextual inte…
