Much of the conversation around web security centers on preventative measures and layers of defense, but there’s a new front line that deserves focused attention: real-time threat detection at the runtime level. With attacks now happening faster and at greater scale thanks to AI, the ability to identify and block malicious activity as it unfolds

In this episode, Bob and Simon discuss the creative ups and downs of building personal websites, overcoming perfectionism, and finding joy in fun coding projects as part of the indie web journey.

Automated bots now dominate web traffic, outnumbering humans, significantly impacting ad models. In legal news, SERPAPI won a court case against Google’s web scraping efforts. Tech mourns icons Om Malik and John C. Dvorak.

WordPress 7.1 beta is now available for testing, and we have been running it on our test sites for the past week. The official release is scheduled for August 19, 2026, timed with WordCamp US. While WordPress 7.0 rebuilt the admin and introduced the AI… Read More » The post What’s Coming in WordPress 7.1? (Features & Screenshots) first appeared on WPBeginner.

Inspired by Om I’ve been getting back into my DSLR photography. I learned a lot about how ISO settings work from this delightful physics YouTube channel MinutePhysics.