Donald Trump Backs Ally Benjamin Netanyahu Ahead Of Israel's Tight Election [18 Oct 26, 6:38pm] Netanyahu touted his close relationship with the US president in a video released by his Likud party, saying that together they had "crushed Iran" and adding that re-election would allow him to work with Trump to "elminate the Iranian…
WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-16 [16 Oct 26, 9:04am] This is the first in a series of weekly status update posts from the WP Feature Notifications work. Security PRS There are 30+ open Dependabot PRs that will resolve various dependency security alerts across the repository. It would be really helpful…
What’s new in Gutenberg 24.2? (14 October) [14 Oct 26, 6:03pm] “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 t…
Real-time Collaboration: A Guide to Sync Engines [14 Oct 26, 2:40am] In Moving to a server-aware approach for collaboration, @chriszarate explains why the server needs to be at the heart of real-time collaboration, and introduces the engines we’ve been investigating to power the future of RTC. In this post, we’ll…
Dev Chat Agenda – October 14, 2026 [14 Oct 26, 2:23am] The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various curated agenda sections below refer…
Ex-Apple engineer of 12 years may ditch his Mac for Windows 11, says “on paper it’s a yes” [18 Oct 26, 5:38pm] Fernando spent 12+ years building Apple products and is now testing a $5,899.99 Surface Laptop Ultra with 128GB of memory. Former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky and Windows 95 lead Brad Silverberg weighed in on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark plan, comparing it t…
The biggest reason not to buy a Googlebook is all about timing [18 Oct 26, 1:00pm] You probably shoudn’t buy a Googlebook. That’s less of an opinion about the platform itself, but more about the bad timing that this launch has seen, and protecting your own wallet.9to5Google Weekender by Ben Schoon is a part of our free…
HP Googlebook 14 Review: Great laptop, shame about the OS [16 Oct 26, 11:30pm] HP’s first crack at a Googlebook laptop is a winner, or at least as much of one as the platform allows. While Googlebook as an operating system leaves a lot to be desired, the HP Googlebook 14 checks every single box for a fantastic laptop. mor…
Pixelated 121: Is Googlebook the first real post-smartphone PC? [16 Oct 26, 9:00pm] Welcome to Pixelated episode 121. This week, Abner, Damien, and Will dive deep into Google’s new laptop platform, Googlebook. From hardware impressions across review units to making sense of the earliest days of desktop Android, there’s a ton of…
US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars [18 Oct 26, 11:00am] CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a mixed bag.The post US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Israeli Ad Firm Doubled as Candiru’s Zero-Click Spyware Delivery Channel [17 Oct 26, 11:00am] Israeli company Discover-Tech’s ads allow threat actors to fingerprint and track devices at scale and infect selected targets.The post Israeli Ad Firm Doubled as Candiru’s Zero-Click Spyware Delivery Channel appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In Other News: ICS-Sniper Attack, Hacking XWorm Malware Operators, $250k Chrome Exploit [16 Oct 26, 2:09pm] Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: BofA adds 1,000 patching contractors, KGB RAT pairs data theft with jump scares, and Langflow flaw under attack.The post In Other News: ICS-Sniper Attack, Hacking XWorm Malware Operators, $…
BAE Systems Security Incident Stalls Notices From US Bankruptcy Courts [16 Oct 26, 11:46am] A cyber incident affecting contractor BAE Systems has knocked out the Bankruptcy Noticing Center, halting notices nationwide for a week.The post BAE Systems Security Incident Stalls Notices From US Bankruptcy Courts appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Chinese APT Exploited BeyondTrust Vulnerability as Zero-Day [16 Oct 26, 10:53am] Armory Castle exploited CVE-2026-102764 for initial access, deployed custom tools, and deleted logs and artifacts.The post Chinese APT Exploited BeyondTrust Vulnerability as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Switching languages can change a chatbot's personality test results [18 Oct 26, 2:40pm] Ask an AI chatbot to complete a personality questionnaire in English, then give it the Mandarin version, and its answers paint a different picture. In tests of five systems, switching languages changed how strongly the responses expressed qualities s…
One AI model, trillions of variants: Breaking mass attacks on voice assistants [17 Oct 26, 12:00pm] Imagine sitting in your home, listening to what you think is a run-of-the-mill advertisement or perhaps a piece of music you enjoy. But while you hum along, that audio file is sending a secret, malicious audio message—imperceptible to human ears—…
Team develops embodied robotic arm 'EmArm' with human-like touch sensing [17 Oct 26, 11:00am] A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an Embodied Sensorimotor Robotic Arm (EmArm) capable of whole-arm tactile sensing and adaptive manipulation. By embedding a soft optical tactile skin directly…
What Does A White Tip Mean On A Spark Plug? [18 Oct 26, 7:45pm] Taking a good look at your spark plug can tell you a bit about its condition, and a white tip is one such thing to look out for when doing proper maintenance.
This Week in AI: Expanding the Possibilities [16 Oct 26, 3:55pm] New AI tools are making business data easier to explore. They’re also giving researchers new ways to study disease outbreaks and physical systems. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, we examined developments from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistra…
Code Review After Code Gets Cheap [16 Oct 26, 10:54am] In my previous article, I argued that agentic development needs enough specification to make correctness checkable. A quick prompt can get implementation started quickly, but someone still has to decide whether the result does what we wanted. I left…
Generative AI in the Real World: Observability for AI with Charity Majors [15 Oct 26, 3:54pm] AI makes it possible to generate code faster than teams can understand and support it. In this episode, Honeycomb cofounder and CTO Charity Majors joined Ben to discuss how that shift changes the work of building reliable software. Charity explained…
Agentic Code Quality [15 Oct 26, 10:54am] The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s Elevate blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. For much of human history, we’ve evaluated code quality via code review: Someone reads what you wrote and makes…
Why Does AI Write Like Yoda? [14 Oct 26, 10:50am] I use AI for writing all the time. But not because it’s good at writing. In fact, just the opposite is true. AI is so reliably bad at writing that I’ve actually taken advantage of that, and made its bad writing an integral part of my writing proc…
After Protests and Riots, Art Basel Readies Paris Show [18 Oct 26, 8:53pm] 'The fair is proceeding as planned and final preparations are underway,' a spokesperson said.The post After Protests and Riots, Art Basel Readies Paris Show appeared first on Artnet News.
Art Market Minute: Live From London [17 Oct 26, 10:48am] Frieze Abu Dhabi’s Dyala Nusseibeh and gallerist Asmaa Al-Shabibi join host Margaret Carrigan to talk about what's next for the Gulf's art market.The post Art Market Minute: Live From London appeared first on Artnet News.
6 Standout Lots From Artcurial’s Major Art Basel Paris Sales [16 Oct 26, 6:18pm] Highlights include a private collection built around Impressionism and the Nabis, as well as modern and contemporary standouts like a long-unseen Gauguin and a Basquiat work on paper.The post 6 Standout Lots From Artcurial’s Major Art Basel Paris…
Where the Art World Eats, Sleeps, and Shops in Paris During Art Basel [16 Oct 26, 5:31pm] A concise guide, from exquisite Basque food and perfect pizza to a treasure-filled antiques market.The post Where the Art World Eats, Sleeps, and Shops in Paris During Art Basel appeared first on Artnet News.
Ooh Là Là! 10 Must-See Shows in Paris This Fall [16 Oct 26, 4:00pm] Have your pick from surveys on photography and landscape painting to spotlights on Zurbarán, Mary Cassatt, and more.The post Ooh Là Là! 10 Must-See Shows in Paris This Fall appeared first on Artnet News.
Unlocking AI in Your Apps with TanStack AI [16 Oct 26, 12:32pm] TanStack AI is a strongly typed set of libraries for adding AI features to your apps. Part 1 of this intro covers basic setup and prompting, streaming responses, persisting threads to your database, and resuming a response after a mid-stream refresh.
Building a Fancy Scrollspy Using Modern CSS [14 Oct 26, 3:20pm] Scrollspy navigation used to mean IntersectionObserver and a pile of JavaScript. With scroll-target-group, :target-current, and a little anchor positioning, a plain list of anchor links can highlight the current section all on its own.
“WebMCP is Agentic WebPerf” [14 Oct 26, 3:19pm] Yoav Weiss makes a good point: “WebMCP is Agentic WebPerf”. I’ve seen both pushback to WebMCP in the form of “websites should just be better, or agents should be smarter, there shouldn’t be alternative paths to using them built.” And I’…
5 Good Choices for HTML Containers [9 Oct 26, 3:24pm] Divs and spans are fine, but purposefully meaningless. Often the meaning actually matters, so let's look at some of those situations.
The Index: Issue #202 [16 Oct 26, 10:55am] Tiny Little OfficeThis is really smart. It's a word processor, along with other common office software like spreadsheets, but it's completely URL powered.Introducing the Accessible Components LibraryYou could not be in better hands than…
The Index: Issue #201 [9 Oct 26, 8:55am] 2027 web platform feature rankingThis is the second year we're doing this, and last year's 1900+ rankings not only helped us push the right proposals in the Interop process, it was also used to prioritize web platform feature development…
The Index: Issue #200 [2 Oct 26, 8:55am] It's issue #200 of The Index! A real milestone that we should celebrate with a dedicated CSS links issue. Let's get stuck in to the good links.Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floatsThe Boss™ is here with some fantastic news on…
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…
AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong [16 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined by Gabriela Moreira, CEO at Quint, about why formal specification languages like TLA+ are essential for catching system design flaws before writing code, how Quint brings developer-friendly syntax and executability to formal methods, a…
Keep calm and call clone with Rust [13 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-time memory safety without garbage collection overhead, why Rust consistently ranks as developers' m…
Porsche Mission S Reimagines the Essence of the Sports Car [16 Oct 26, 11:23pm] STUTTGART/NEW YORK: Porsche has unveiled the Mission S concept as a preview of a planned permanent super sports car offering above the 911, signalling a new direction for its vehicle design and driver-focused interiors. Presented under the company’…
IREIS 2026 returns to ADNEC from Nov. 10–12 [16 Oct 26, 10:15pm] ABU DHABI: The International Real Estate and Investment Show (IREIS) will return to ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi from November 10 to 12, 2026, bringing developers, investors, financial institutions and homebuyers together to explore property opportunities…
Oman Signs EU No-Tolls Pledge on Freedom of Navigation [18 Oct 26, 8:57pm] Oman has joined all 27 EU member states and 33 other countries in signing a pledge to maintain the integrity of the United Nations Convention on the L...
Viking Names Seven New River Ships [17 Oct 26, 6:28pm] Viking today announced the naming of its seven newest river ships during a simultaneous ceremony in Amsterdam that virtually connected locations acros...
Mattel Unveils Céline Dion Barbie Doll Inspired by Her Iconic 1998 Oscars Look [16 Oct 26, 7:20pm] Mattel Unveils Céline Dion Barbie Doll Inspired by Her Iconic 1998 Oscars LookCéline Dion is back on top of the world. After years away from the spotlight due to health issues, the Canadian star is back on stage with a sold-out 26-concert residenc…
Bhutan’s Pioneering Sustainability Initiatives Make It a Finalist for the Earthshot Prize [16 Oct 26, 4:35pm] Bhutan’s Pioneering Sustainability Initiatives Make It a Finalist for the Earthshot PrizeThe human-caused climate crisis needs big solutions. Some initiatives, groups, and even countries are doing their part to help revitalize and restore precious…
Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce [18 Oct 26, 4:30pm] The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.
TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act [18 Oct 26, 4:05pm] Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
The next developer interface is ambient intelligence [15 Oct 26, 7:39pm] AI, agents, voice, and physical controls are shifting software development from operating tools to expressing intent—and helping developers stay focused on building.The post The next developer interface is ambient intelligence appeared first on Th…
Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org [15 Oct 26, 6:00pm] Put native GitHub features to work to review outside collaborator access and archive stale repositories.The post Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub availability report: September 2026 [14 Oct 26, 8:01pm] In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: September 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers [14 Oct 26, 7:11pm] Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made.The post From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the starg…
GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise [13 Oct 26, 5:56pm] GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%.The post GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise appeared f…
Meta’s New Terms Expand Crawling Rights Beyond Advertisers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [16 Oct 26, 9:38pm] New terms let Meta crawl sites tied to business users and use the content to train its products, widening rights ad buyers had already granted.The post Meta’s New Terms Expand Crawling Rights Beyond Advertisers appeared first on Search Engine Jour…
Why The New York Times Puts Free Content First [16 Oct 26, 7:00pm] The New York Times gives prime homepage space to free articles and tells readers they’re free. Here’s why that works.The post Why The New York Times Puts Free Content First appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
ADLC: Why Judgment Must Move Upstream [16 Oct 26, 6:15pm] In early automobile assembly, the most skilled workers were fitters, who hand-finished each part so it would fit with its neighbor. The role disappeared when precision gauging made interchangeable parts possible. However, their expertise was not lost…
Kong announces Context Management for efficient AI agent use [14 Oct 26, 8:13pm] Kong today has announced Kong Context Management, designed to ensure agents can access more of the enterprise context it needs without swamping the model with everything it could use. The new capability is generally available today as part of Kong AI…
BrowserStack Launches Real-Browser Load Testing Ahead of Holiday Sales [14 Oct 26, 5:23pm] DUBLIN – BrowserStack, the leading AI-native software testing platform, today announced the launch of BrowserStack Load Testing, which runs real browsers and API traffic in a single test so teams can see how their web apps hold up ahead of holiday…
A release gate for AI agent incidents [14 Oct 26, 5:10pm] Consider a hypothetical support agent that processes a cancellation request using an outdated policy. The message sounds helpful. The account update succeeds. The customer loses access, and the person reviewing the incident has to work out which poli…
Consortium Members elect Board of Directors [28 Sep 26, 12:47pm] World Wide Web Consortium Members have elected seven individuals to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors
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.
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 m…
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 s…
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…
Earth's oldest evidence of life is written in stone—but it's at risk of disappearing [18 Oct 26, 9:00pm] Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals walked on land and dinosaurs rose and fell, our planet was shaped by a much smaller, more unassuming form of life. And we can…
Japan to launch historic round-trip mission to Mars moon [18 Oct 26, 8:20pm] Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that could help unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Earth, in what aims to be the first round trip to the Martian region.
Climate change affects the quality of one of the world's most important staple foods [18 Oct 26, 7:00pm] Depending on the cultivar, higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere can significantly alter the protein composition of wheat. This affects not only baking quality but potentially also the tolerability of wheat products. This…
Deleting AI chats may not erase every trace [16 Oct 26, 5:59pm] Deleting a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant may not erase everything the assistant remembers.
Song lyrics have become less emotional [16 Oct 26, 5:41pm] New research finds that popular music has gradually become less explicit about emotion and relationships.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt [18 Oct 26, 7:00pm] This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is n00bdragon with a comment about Florida’s age-gating law and its esoteric definition of addiction: Is anyone else bothered by this incredibly strange definition of “addiction”? Is YMCA…
MLB Plans To Play Stupid Games With Its Website Again In Upcoming Lockout [17 Oct 26, 2:39am] Back in the much simpler times of 2021, we wrote about some of the games Major League Baseball decided to play as part of a brief owner’s lockout of players while both sides negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. This included essentially sc…
Something Else To Look Forward To: AI Worms [16 Oct 26, 10:28pm] Back in the early days of the Internet – 1988 to be precise – the self-replicating computer program known as the Morris worm spread across the network and shut down thousands of online VAX and Sun computers. It was a good example of software not…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: No Good Feed Goes Unpunished [16 Oct 26, 8:02pm] 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 —…
dennis vanderbroeck creates settings for the moments that bring us together [18 Oct 26, 2:15pm] moving between fashion, theater, and music, the dutch spatial designer treats architecture as a framework for encounter, where the relationship between performers and audiences matters as much as the space itself.The post dennis vanderbroeck creates…
sardinian school wraps in perforated aluminum facade to enclose flexible agorà [18 Oct 26, 7:45am] wrapped in a textured skin of micro-perforated corrugated panels, the building presents a light-reactive metallic shell that softens along curved edges, concealing a permeable two-story layout.The post sardinian school wraps in perforated aluminum f…
tob.studio’s timber bike station in germany resembles stacked log pile [17 Oct 26, 8:35pm] the bike station integrates e-bike charging stations, repair facilities, and digital information, as well as public amenities including an accessible toilet and shower.The post tob.studio’s timber bike station in germany resembles stacked log pile…
projection mapping and performances make the night come alive at signal festival [17 Oct 26, 2:15pm] co-founder martin pošta reflects on the origins of the digital art festival that transforms prague’s streets, landmarks, and historic buildings with light, sound, and performance.The post projection mapping and performances make the night come al…
snøhetta unveils completed shanghai grand opera house with spiraling public rooftop [17 Oct 26, 12:00pm] the norwegian architecture studio completes the 146,786-square-meter shanghai grand opera house with three auditoriums and a rooftop open to the public.The post snøhetta unveils completed shanghai grand opera house with spiraling public rooftop app…
