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datasette-cluster-map 0.19 and more — today's web signal.

Release: datasette-cluster-map 0.19 One of the oldest Datasette plugins, and still one of my favorites. It now works with Datasette 1.0a42, and depends on the new datasette-leaflet to ensure OpenStreetMap tiles are requested with a referrer header. Here's a map of power p

The Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights across the United States citing "extraordinary circumstances" and for "reasons of safety."

If you have one of these AI-generated homepages, you'd better download and save it quick

"SignDrop" exploit lets local users gain all-powerful System rights.

DOJ takes aim at $1.2B in Binance loot as FBI disrupts North Korean scam and more — today's web signal.

Hasn't completely ruled out cyberattack as cause of incident that's damaged Exchange Online and services that rely on it

‘FaceStealer’ scam tied to $400M+ theft, 900+ webcam recordings

Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to US businesses — but it's not free.

"We're not doing this thing because we like rockets."

A little tinkering can black hole obnoxious Samsung TV ads and some tracking, until a firmware fix ruins the fun

Radiation and collisions reshape the planetary building materials.

If you have one of these AI-generated homepages, you'd better download and save it quick

‘FaceStealer’ scam tied to $400M+ theft, 900+ webcam recordings

You could check out more than your room

My comment on The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford — Hacker News.OK, this comment convinced me to give that a shot. Here's a thing I made in Three.js this morning - a Nudibranch themed Faberge Egg: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/Hidden-Reef-Egg... (77KB)

Cryptographic protocols like Privacy Pass help keep web sites safe from abuse while keeping their users private. This post looks at the quantum threat to these protocols, and some new post-quantum cryptography that may help close the gap.

The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day. — Paul Ford, The Web Is More Than Enough Tags: browsers, paul-ford, web-development

Personal AI agents have changed how users interact with the web, blurring the lines between automated and human traffic. Learn how Cloudflare gives site owners visibility and control to manage personal agent access.

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

Cloudflare's web application firewall can now correlate an HTTP request with its response. Full transaction detection helps every customer find successful exploits, data exposure, and risky misconfigurations that request-only inspection can miss.

OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.