In classic Cloudflare fashion, the CDN provider used April Fool's Day to unveil an actual, "not a joke" product. Today, the company announced EmDash -- an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress that aims to solve plugin security. Phoronix reports: With the help of AI coding agents, Cloudflare engineers have been rebuilding the WordPress open-source project "from the ground up." EmDash is written entirely in TypeScript and is a server-less design. Making plug-ins more secure than the WordPress architecture, EmDash plug-ins are sandboxed and run in their own isolate. EmDash builds upon the Astro web framework. EmDash doesn't rely on any WordPress code but is designed to be compatible with WordPress functionality. EmDash is open-source now under the MIT license. The EmDash code is available on GitHub.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country's schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish government also plans to make schools cellphone-free throughout the country.

Educational authorities have been investing heavily. Last year alone, the education ministry allocated $83 million to purchase textbooks and teachers' guides. In a country with about 11 million people, the aim is for every student to have a physical textbook for each subject. The government also put $54 million towards the purchase of fiction and non-fiction books for students.

These moves represent a dramatic pivot from previous decades, during which Sweden -- and many other nations -- moved away from physical books in favor of tablets and digital resources in an effort to prepare students for life in an online world. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Nordic country's efforts have sparked a debate on the role of digital technology in education, one that extends well beyond the country's borders. US parents in districts that have adopted digital technology to a great extent may be wondering if educators will reverse course, too. As for why Sweden is pivoting away from digital devices, researcher Linda Falth said the move was driven by several factors, including concerns over whether the digitization of classrooms had been evidence-based. "There was also a broader cultural reassessment," Falth said. "Sweden had positioned itself as a frontrunner in digital education, but over time concerns emerged about screen time, distraction, reduced deep reading, and the erosion of foundational skills such as sustained attention and handwriting."

Falth noted that proponents of reform believe that "basic skills -- especially reading, writing, and numeracy -- must be firmly established first, and that physical textbooks are often better suited for that purpose."

Further reading: Digital Platforms Correlate With Cognitive Decline in Young Users

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darwinmac writes: OnlyOffice has suspended its partnership with Nextcloud after the latter forked its editors into a new project called Euro-Office, according to a report from Neowin. The move comes just days after Nextcloud and partners like IONOS announced the fork as part of a broader push for European digital sovereignty. In a statement, the company accused the project of violating its licensing terms and international intellectual property law, claiming that Euro-Office uses its technology without proper compliance. OnlyOffice also pointed to missing attribution requirements and branding obligations tied to its AGPL-based licensing model.
As a result, its 8-year-old partnership, which allowed Nextcloud users to edit and collaborate on office documents right inside their own instance, has been suspended. OnlyOffice also accused Nextcloud of not behaving in a manner expected of a partner, alleging attempts to poach its employees and influence customers against the company. Nextcloud said it forked the OnlyOffice repository instead of collaborating with the company because the project is notoriously difficult to contribute to. It also pointed out that OnlyOffice is a Russian company with Russian employees who leave code comments in Russian. In addition to that, some users may feel uncomfortable using software that could be linked to the Russian government.

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Anthropic is using copyright takedown notices to try to contain an accidental leak of the underlying instructions for its Claude Code AI agent. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions ... that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub." From the report: Programmers combing through the source code so far have marveled on social media at some of Anthropic's tricks for getting its Claude AI models to operate as Claude Code. One feature asks the models to go back periodically through tasks and consolidate their memories -- a process it calls dreaming. Another appears to instruct Claude Code in some cases to go "undercover" and not reveal that it is an AI when publishing code to platforms like GitHub. Others found tags in the code that appeared pointed at future product releases. The code even included a Tamagotchi-style pet called "Buddy" that users could interact with.

After Anthropic requested that GitHub remove copies of its proprietary code, another programmer used other AI tools to rewrite the Claude Code functionality in other programming languages. Writing on GitHub, the programmer said the effort was aimed at keeping the information available without risking a takedown. That new version has itself become popular on the programming platform.

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An impressive start to the 2026 season leaves Bearman knocking on the so-called ‘Big Six’ door.

The Italian teenager has enjoyed a sensational start to 2026 and now leads the F1 Drivers’ Championship.

A hard-coded limit on deny rules drops automatic enforcement for concatenated commands

Claude Code will ignore its deny rules, used to block risky actions, if burdened with a sufficiently long chain of subcommands. This vuln leaves the bot open to prompt injection attacks.…

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Foools, a new animation short/pilot from Cartoon Network. In a faraway land where they only speak the untranslatable language of Circush, adorable clowns Ham and Eex cook up a plan to comfort little Nod when her beloved Fireflies go away...

Ultraviolet light illuminates species-specific biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries (Casuarius) Cassowaries possess prominent keratinous and bony cranial ornaments, called casques, which have been suggested to function in visual signaling.

Despite possessing vividly colored head and neck skin, casque keratin appears dull, which has abated the casque's proposed role as a visual indicator. Given that cassowaries, like many other birds, can perceive color in the ultraviolet (UV) range, we exposed heads of living and museum-preserved cassowaries to UV wavelengths (365; 385–395 nm) and discovered that casque keratin possesses biofluorescent patterns that differ significantly between species (Casuarius bennetti, C. casuarius, C. unappendiculatus). To assess whether casque surfaces reflect these patterns, we tested for the presence of UV reflectivity using a UV-sensitive camera. We found that casque keratin reflects 365 nm UV light, a wavelength within the range of cassowary eye sensitivity. However, our observations cannot confirm whether species-specific patterns can be detected by cassowaries in natural light conditions. Nonetheless, we recommend that biofluorescent signatures may prove useful to taxonomically identify incomplete specimens in museum collections as well as to more easily census living individuals and populations in the field. Altogether, our approach highlights the importance of future studies continuing to build upon the examination of UV reflectance, beyond the presence of fluorescence, as in many previous UV signaling studies.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

date stamped on slide June 1981

Mr Mikage (ミスター御影） posted a photo:

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Verenigde Staten hebben de Venezolaanse interim-president Delcy Rodríguez van de sanctielijst gehaald. Daar stond ze sinds 2018 op, nadat ze vicepresident was geworden onder president Nicolás Maduro. Nadat de Amerikanen hem in januari gevangennamen en Rodríguez de leiding over Venezuela overnam, is ze gaan samenwerken met de VS.

Rodríguez maakte onder meer afspraken over olie met de Amerikanen. De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump toonde zich meerdere keren erg tevreden met haar optreden. Washington schaalde eerder ook al sancties af die gericht waren op de Venezolaanse economie.

De interim-president staat wel nog op de sanctielijst van de Europese Unie. Buitenlandchef Kaja Kallas heeft gezegd dat ze zal voorstellen om haar daarvan af te halen.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - Republikeinen in het Amerikaanse Huis van Afgevaardigden en de Senaat hebben een plan aangekondigd om de gedeeltelijke shutdown in de Verenigde Staten te beëindigen. Volgens Huisvoorzitter Mike Johnson is de partij het eens geworden over een gezamenlijke oplossing.

De shutdown is ontstaan omdat Democraten niet willen dat er extra geld gaat naar immigratiedienst ICE. Hierdoor kon de financiering van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid (DHS) niet worden goedgekeurd.

Het Huis van Afgevaardigden en de Senaat kwamen vorige week elk met een eigen plan voor de financiering van het ministerie en wilden dat van elkaar niet accepteren.

Het lijkt er nu op dat het oorspronkelijke plan van de Senaat de komende dagen opnieuw wordt uitgevoerd, waarbij alleen ICE en de douane- en grensbewakingsdienst zonder geld blijven. Vervolgens zouden de Republikeinen de diensten via een andere weg alsnog willen financieren en zo voorkomen dat Democraten hierover moeten stemmen.

President Trump kwam woensdag persoonlijk naar een hoorzitting van het Hooggerechtshof over zijn streven om het Amerikaanse birthright citizenship te beperken. Of de hoge rechters hem dat toestaan, lijkt twijfelachtig. Wat staat er op het spel bij de omstreden zaak?

Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to produce five psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, DMT, and psychedelic compounds secreted by the Sonoran Desert toad.

Relash ??is a beverage company born with the mission to redefine conventional sodas. Their proposal focuses on creating organic, carbonated, and sugar-free drinks, made exclusively with natural ingredients. Under the motto "Best Served Chilled," the brand promotes a clear philosophy: enjoying the moment without taking life too seriously, using a play on the word relax to invite a sense of calm with a twist ?

Wat zou er in de hoofden van de mensen gebeuren die nu in de gebieden wonen die gebombardeerd worden door Amerika en Israël? In Libanon, in Iran, in Gaza.

Bomkraters, puinhopen, doden en gewonden laten ongetwijfeld een indruk achter, die niet onuitwisbaar zal zijn.

De uit Libanon afkomstige Yasmine Hamdan (tegenwoordig in Frankrijk wonend) zingt:

I remember to forget
It’s foul from within

Volledige tekst (Engels vertaling) hier op haar website.

De song komt van het album ‘I remember I forget’,  uitgebracht in 2025 door het Crammed Discs.