US hasn't seen this many cases this early in a year since the 1990s before we hit "elimination." Read more »

Lindell brief has many defects including "cases that do not exist," judge says. Read more »

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This post is about two things: that it looks like DOGE has violated an injunction, at least in spirit if not letter, and why it matters. The injunction in question arose in the hybrid case, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration, which named…

The people most loudly (misleadingly) complaining about censorship just… helped enable actual censorship. Not metaphorical censorship, not “they won’t let me tweet slurs” censorship, but literal “we’re going to stop research into fighting actual government censorship” censorship. It’s painfully stupid, but that’s just what we get with the folks running…

Get the skills you need to become a software tester with the Ultimate Software Testing Bundle. Software testing is performed to identify differences between given input and expected output and to verify that software products function according to pre-defined requirements. Courses cover the basics, Bugzilla, JIRA, testing techniques, Java TestNG,…

DoorDash has sent a proposal to buy the British meal delivery company Deliveroo for $3.6 billion. "The current offer marks the first formal approach since the last report in the summer," notes Reuters. From the report: The deal is expected to face no regulatory hurdles, as it provides DoorDash access…

Google announced it will end software updates and remote control support for the first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats (plus the 2014 European model) starting October 25th. "You will no longer be able to control them remotely from your phone or with Google Assistant, but can still adjust the temperature…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured. Earlier this month, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the request of Turkish governmental authorities, according to a…

Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow there’s an arc of progress that’s formed. But are there what amount to “laws of innovation” that govern that arc of progress? There are some exponential and other laws that purport to at least measure overall quantitative…

London Glorfield can hardly remember a world where smartphones and screens weren’t a fixture of his everyday life.  The 23-year-old former recording artist was just five years old when the iPhone was first released, and recalls feeling “inundated by tech” growing up. In recent years, Glorfield noticed that both he…

London Glorfield can hardly remember a world where smartphones and screens weren’t a fixture of his everyday life.  The 23-year-old former recording artist was just five years old when the iPhone was first released, and recalls feeling “inundated by tech” growing up. In recent years, Glorfield noticed that both he…

London Glorfield can hardly remember a world where smartphones and screens weren’t a fixture of his everyday life.  The 23-year-old former recording artist was just five years old when the iPhone was first released, and recalls feeling “inundated by tech” growing up. In recent years, Glorfield noticed that both he…

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch, which launched on April 24, 2015. Yesterday, we recapped features rumored for the Apple Watch Series 11, but since 2015, the Apple Watch has also branched out into the Apple Watch Ultra and the Apple Watch SE, so we thought…

For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a 13-inch iPad Air and a Lululook Foldable Magnetic Charging Mount to go along with it. Lululook makes all kinds of stands and accessories for the iPad and other Apple products, and its…

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the rumored look of the iPhone 17 "Air" and iPadOS 19's major productivity update. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos We take a closer look at the rumored design of the ‌iPhone 17‌ "Air," which is…

Members of the Congressional Labor Caucus wrote the letter after NPR reported that a whistleblower says DOGE may have removed sensitive labor data and compromised the security of computer systems.

A nearly 30-year-old legal case looms large over the U.S. government's antitrust case against Google. A judge is hearing arguments to decide the penalties to levy against the search giant.

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Facebook's parent company hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc's digital competition rules.

After a couple years of having its open-source Llama AI model be just a part of its Connect conferences, Meta is breaking things out and hosting an entirely generative AI-focused developer conference called LlamaCon on April 29. The event is entirely virtual, and you'll be able to watch along live…

Android tablet or foldable owners can now adjust the divider between Gmail's message list and conversation views. 9to5Google spotted the change, which arrived in version 2025.04.13.x of Gmail for Android. The update lets you drag your finger on the divider to dynamically change the sizes of the Gmail app's two…

Copilot, Microsoft's AI assistant, appears to be struggling to match its competition in terms of popularity. The number of people using Copilot has remained around 20 million weekly users for the last year, according to tech newsletter Newcomer, while OpenAI's ChatGPT has hit as high as 400 million weekly users.…

The firm has stopped taking orders on its website and apps, including for food and clothes.

Customers have reported problems with click and collect orders as well as card and contactless payments.

Tech firms are being urged to do more to stop young people accessing unsuitable material.

It’s a long time since I’ve had any Orange Pi products but today in the mail arrived a package comprising Orange Pi RV, Orange Pi RV2, a “5.1v5A GAN” USB-C power supply and a small packet which I’m still working on. Ok, sorted, the little package contains a 256G EMMC……

This is SO obvious once you grasp the idea – for some reason it missed me for the longest time. Let’s say you have a load of devices on your home control network… we’ll ignore Zigbee devices here as they don’t have IP addresses – as they work on a……

Important April 2025 update – see FP2 section further down…. Jan 2024: I just received my first packages of the new year, a duff screen protector from AliExpress, some USB shelf-lamps from the same (more on that later) meanwhile from Aqara, my eagerly-awaited Aqara G4 Smart video doorbell and their……

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from all of them: what would Steve (Jobs) say?  Steve would call the Vision Pro a…

Sorry I’ve been away: time flies when you are not having fun. But now I’m back. Moore’s Law, which began with a random observation by the late Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that transistor densities on silicon substrates were doubling every 18 months, has over the intervening 60+ years been both…

My son Cole, pictured here as a goofy kid many years ago, is now six feet six inches tall and in college. Cole needed a letter of recommendation recently so he turned to an old family friend who, in turn, used ChatGPT to generate the letter, which he thought was…

For years, scientists thought nothing could live above 73℃/163℉.  At that temperature, everything boiled to death. But scientists Tom Brock and Hudson Freeze weren’t convinced. What began as their simple quest to trawl for life in some of the hottest natural springs on Earth would, decades later, change the trajectory…

In honor of our Earth, on her day, we have two stories about the overlooked, ignored and neglected parts of nature. In the first half, we learn about an epic battle that is raging across the globe every day, every moment. It's happening in the ocean, and your very life…

A couple years ago, an entomologist named Martha Weiss got a letter from a little boy in Japan saying he wanted to replicate a famous study of hers. We covered that original study on Radiolab more than a decade ago in an episode called "Goo and You"—check it out here—and…

Porsche's Apple Vision Pro App lets you customize a 911 Spirit 70 in mixed reality — and proceed to order it if you have the $250K to spare.

Doja Cat is now a purchasable avatar in Meta Horizon Worlds, priced at roughly $7.50 worth of Meta Credits.

Varjo Teleport 2.0 upgrades the $30/month photorealistic scene capture service to "best-in-class" visual quality.

GHOST TOWN is the latest VR game to launch from Fireproof Games, a studio whose previous title, The Room: A Dark Matter, is one of the best and most rated VR puzzle games to date. Ghost Town is now available on Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets, and is planned to…

Google released the schedule for its upcoming I/O developer conference, which includes developer-focused sessions promising to deliver more insight into its upcoming Android XR operating system. At least from the schedule, it doesn’t seem Google is getting that vocal about Android XR just yet. Android XR has been squarely out…

Avatar: The Last Airbender doesn’t have an official VR game, although you’d be forgiven for double-taking as you bend all four elements in the multiplayer action game Elements Divided, now available on Quest 2 and above and PC VR headsets. Developed by Loco Motion and published by Fast Travel Games, Elements Divided lets…

The mysterious, massive conglomerate Gorilla Corp has arrived in Gorilla Tag with a new project it promises will add thousands of jobs for all Monke—regardless...

Meet Ember! She likes long walks in the woods, playing catch, and napping in your living room. Oh, and she loves digging holes—though luckily, not...

Today, you can express yourself by taking on the persona of Doja Cat in Meta Horizon. The Grammy-winning rapper and pop singer is our first...

This week, young people participating in the European Astro Pi Challenge 2024/25 will have their programs run in space! Astronauts from the European Space Agency (ESA) have been setting up the Astro Pi computers on board the International Space Station (ISS) ready to receive the programs.  The European Astro Pi…

A key part of digital literacy is ensuring that all learners, regardless of their background or gender, have equal opportunities to develop computing skills and confidence in using technology. However, the Department for Education in the UK recently released a report highlighting the growing gender gap in maths and science…

An increasing number of frameworks describe the possible contents of a K–12 artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum and suggest possible learning activities (for example, see the UNESCO competency framework for students, 2024). In our March seminar, Lukas Höper and Carsten Schulte from the Department of Computing Education at Paderborn University in…

Video synthesizers can create fun and funky visual effects on screens. In this project, you’ll learn how to use Processing and Blinka, the CircuitPython compatibility library for single-board computers running Linux, to display animations and control them with hardware. Check out the guide by Liz Clark. Each Friday is PiDay…

#circuitpythonparsec Fade LEDs with constant current for a flicker-free look! code example To learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org  

AI powered magic mirror built by Paul Ruiz on Hackster.io. He chose a Raspberry Pi 3B so if you wanted to make your own you should have no trouble with a newer version: In this project I’m going to walk you through making a magical mirror using a Raspberry Pi…

We're excited to announce our new Prusa Academy course: the highly requested PrusaSlicer Masterclass - Beginner to Advanced! While we’re continuously making PrusaSlicer more intuitive and user-friendly, we're also constantly adding powerful new features. Getting started is now easier than ever, but... The post Unlock PrusaSlicer’s Full Potential With Our New…

We continue with our flash contests, so keep your eyes peeled on this page to catch the current themes. Flash contests start every second Friday and last for 17 days, concluding on the Sunday after the next, effectively spanning over the... The post Flash Contests Theme: Fridge Repairs appeared first…

Hollywood special effects aren’t just about CGI — there’s still a world of creatures, props, and animatronics making movies feel real. Lately, more filmmakers are swinging back to practical effects. At Studio Gillis in Los Angeles, they’ve been at it for... The post Practical movie effects: Sara Villareal & Studio…

Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"

You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"

The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"

Our mission is to build one of the most powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering engines in the world. Today, web graphics and rendering hit the accelerator with the release of Babylon.js 8.0.https://medium.com/media/1c7c166e0513ffd34577794c6ef53f86/hrefBabylon.js 8.0 represents a year of new features, optimizations, and performance improvements aimed at helping you create…

Babylon can be used to build just about any kind of 3D or graphical web (or native!) experience. The sky is the limit! That said, a specific but common use case is viewing a single 3D model on a web page. E-commerce is a prime example, where you might just…

One of the fundamental concepts I wanted for Babylon.js from the beginning was to allow users to do what they want in a simple way.Our initial motto was ‘One feature, one line of code,’ and we have tried to stay true to that ideal ever since.The idea was that the user should…

The Keychain is a system-wide feature on macOS that securely stores account passwords for applications. Until Xojo 2025r1, updating the password for an existing KeychainItem—that…

When writing code it’s always a good idea to be thinking about the future. Today you are creating a desktop project but tomorrow you might…

April’s Year of Code theme is all about a great User Interface, I decided to focus on refining the user experience of an existing application.…

I’m putting Better Programming on hiatus to make room for other programming publications.I get that this is a big pivot given that we switched to a new editor recently. But things are changing at Medium and I think this will ultimately be a boon for everyone, authors, readers and publications.I…

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Node-RED 4.0 is now available to install. If upgrading, please read the upgrade instructions. We’ve highlighted some of the main highlights of the release below. There have also been a large number of community contributions ranging from bug fixes, features, documentation and translations. We wouldn’t be able to do what…

Node-RED 3.1 is now available to install. If upgrading, please read the upgrade instructions. This release is a little overdue to say the least. We released the first beta back in February - thinking it would be the only one we did. But one thing lead to another and, four…

Update: the results are now available here. Back in 2019 we published the results of the 2019 Node-RED community survey. The results painted an interesting picture of the Node-RED community. We think it is time to refresh these results so we are running the survey again. The 2023 survey is…

There is a new PHP release in town!

There is a new PHP release in town!

There is a new PHP release in town!

Heading to PressConf This Week? Agencies vs. AI - When Do We Start to Worry? How WP 6.8's Speculative Loading + Cloudflare Can Give Your Sites Some Serious Speed. Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Ruled Illegal. And More! This article, Agency News Weekly, was published at Post Status — the community…

A digest of updates shared in Post Status Slack. This article, The Latest from Post Status Members, was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.

Transcript ↓ In this episode of the Post Status Happiness Hour, host Michelle Frechette ... Read more This article, Post Status Happiness Hour Session Twenty Six, was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.

I know there’s been a lot of frustration directed at me specifically. Some of it, I believe, is misplaced—but I also understand where it’s coming from. The passing of Pope Francis has deeply impacted me. While I still disagree with the Church on many issues, he was the Pope who…

I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My colleague Dan Luu helped me compile some of the “greatest hits” from the archives of ma.tt, perhaps some posts will stir some memories for you as well: Where Did WordCamps Come From? (2023) A…

WordPress 6.8 Cecil is out, and it’s a great release. It’s unbelievable that it’s already been downloaded over 6 million times as I write this. That feeling never gets old. It’s a funny time in WordPress because there are a lot of really interesting open questions: Some of these broad…

Automatically remove empty shortcodes or inactive shortcodes from your WordPress content while preserving your original database entries.

Code Standard Selector is a Visual Studio Code extension that makes it easy to quickly switch your PHP coding standard via shortcut.

Ask the LLM to explain what each block is actually doing and then consider adding comments in your own words so future you will have that context.

For a small business, a website is more than just a digital business card—it’s the heartbeat of your online presence. Whether you’re upgrading your hosting for better performance, switching platforms to access modern tools, or moving away from a restrictive website builder, migration is a pivotal step toward growth. But…

Your website is the digital heart of your business, and your hosting provider is the engine that keeps it running. Choosing the right one can mean the difference between a site that grows with your business and one that holds you back. At WP Engine, we understand that small businesses…

What good is a great website or content if no one sees it? This DE{CODE} session delves into how AI affects SEO, including emerging challenges like AI repurposing your content without proper citation and throttling traffic back to your site.  Panelists explore strategies for optimizing content for AI-driven synopsis results…

W trakcie dyskusji poruszono temat zwolnień w firmach związanych z WordPressem, szczególnie w kontekście ostatnich wydarzeń w firmie Automattic, która zwolniła 16% swojego personelu. Uczestnicy panelu zauważyli, że WordPress jako otwarte oprogramowanie nie przeprowadza zwolnień, a problemy dotyczą głównie firm, które z nim współpracują. Pojawiły się różne opinie na temat…

Niektórzy techniczni eksperci potrafią sprytnie wykorzystywać WordPressowe REST API, aby uzyskać nieautoryzowany dostęp do cyfrowych produktów. W tej prezentacji pokażę, jak działają takie metody oraz jak skutecznie zabezpieczyć swój biznes. Dowiesz się, jakie błędy najczęściej popełniają sprzedawcy i jak proste rozwiązania mogą ochronić Twoje pliki przed niechcianym dostępem.

Czy odebranie ponad 4 tysięcy chatów i odpowiedź na kilka tysięcy maili wystarczy, aby wiedzieć, z czym borykają się klienci firm hostingowych? Moje wieloletnie doświadczenie w branży pozwoliło mi poznać od podszewki najczęstsze bolączki użytkowników WordPressa. Podczas prezentacji podzielę się praktycznymi wskazówkami, jak radzić sobie z typowymi problemami hostingowymi –…

On the podcast today we have Ryan Welcher. This was recorded at WordCamp Asia in Manila, and centres upon his developer relations work with Automattic, and his popular "Block Developer Cookbook" workshop. We discuss some recent new features in WordPress Core, including the Block Bindings API, Plugin Template Registration API,…

On the podcast today we have Aaron D. Campbell, and we're here to talk about the significance of open standards and open source in the digital world. Aaron shares his 18-year journey contributing to WordPress, and expresses excitement about its future as an open, viable counterbalance to closed platforms. We…

On the podcast today we have Milana Cap, and she's here to talk about her presentation at WordCamp Asia in Manila, titled "WordPress gems for developers: fresh new features you'll actually want to use." Milana, a WordPress Engineer at XWP from Serbia, discusses the significance of the Interactivity API and…

Freelancers have plenty of options for leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). It seems like a new tool or five comes out each week. And that doesn’t include existing products with bolted-on AI features. The hype train has morphed into a rocket...

In this powerful WP Minute+ episode, Matt hosts Angela Jin, a seasoned WordPress community leader and now a leadership coach, to discuss how business owners and freelancers can lead through times of change and conflict. Drawing from her years at...

In this episode of the WP Minute+ Podcast, Matt is joined by James Kemp, Core Product Manager at WooCommerce and long-time WordPress entrepreneur, to take a behind-the-scenes look at the WooCommerce ecosystem. James shares his journey from building Magento integrations...

We’ve all been there. You log in to your WordPress dashboard, see a list of available updates, and think: “I’ll just knock these out... The post What to Do When a WordPress Update Breaks Your Site (And How to Prevent It Next Time) appeared first on Pixel Jar.

One of the most common website mistakes we see doesn’t involve design, content, or traffic. It comes down to the call-to-action—and more specifically, the... The post Are You Asking Too Much Too Soon? appeared first on Pixel Jar.

You’ve heard it before: “Always back up your website.”It’s solid advice—but it’s only half the story. Backing up your site is a good start.... The post Why Offsite Backups Are Essential for WordPress Sites appeared first on Pixel Jar.

Sail is a great and much more affordable alternative to traditional and managed WordPress hosting. It’s a free and open source CLI tool to provision and manage WordPress applications in the DigitalOcean cloud. While the 1-click WordPress installer does the job for many DigitalOcean users, it’s very limited for power-users…

Hey folks, hope you’re having a great 2022 so far! I’ve been working on some premium features for Sail CLI over the past few weeks and I would love for you to try them out. Sail Premium is a collection of additional features for Sail CLI, hosted and operated by…

Meet Surge, a brand new page caching plugin for WordPress. It’s extremely fast and has no configuration screens. There is no learning curve, the plugin works just by activating it. Surge stores cache files on the filesystem, leveraging the Linux kernel page cache for efficient in-memory caching and invalidation. In…

Sometime last week, an attempted automated GitLab via Docker upgrade failed catastrophically, and left that Docker image in a pretty botched state. Kudos to the GitLab team for making it so many years without this being a problem. It was a real surprise to see it broken! This took a…

It’s taken about-a-million tiny steps, but as of this moment (2 May, 2024 07:42 UTC-6) this WordPress blog (jjj.blog) and a bunch of other blogs for friends & family are all calling from inside the house running on a cluster of Raspberry Pi 4’s in a server rack in my…

sudo nano /usr/bin/docker_fresh #!/usr/bin/env bash # # Obliterates containers, images, networks, volumes, and cache. # [ $(docker ps | wc -l) -ne 1 ] && echo "Stopping containers..." && docker stop $(docker ps | sed -n '1d;p' | awk -F" " '{print $1}') [ $(docker ps -a | wc -l)…

What do you already know about hosting WooCommerce stores? When it comes to hosting WooCommerce stores, you may have already read some of my articles on choosing a WordPress host, or how to think about WooCommerce already. But maybe you haven't. Or maybe you read the super sharp article by…

Keeping high performers engaged at work not only maximizes productivity, but also drives revenue up. I won't bore you with the research, but studies show that a single top achiever can deliver as much productivity as up to four average employees. In the heart of every small business, there are…

I couldn't get my camera to focus by pressing the shutter button down half-way. It has always worked in the past. I didn't understand what had happened. I started with checking the modes – was I in a different mode than normal? Nope. Then I went to the settings. I…