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This month's streaming slate blends vintage titles with new releases: John Carpenter's The Thing arrives on Prime Video, The Fifth Element lands on Netflix, and an R-rated director's cut of the second X-Files film hits Hulu. Newer additions include Disney+'s The Mandalorian and Grogu, Netflix's Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway, and Edge of Tomorrow streaming on Paramount+.
A technical blog post reintroduces CRAP (Change Risk Anti-Patterns), a code-quality metric that combines cyclomatic complexity and test coverage to flag risky, poorly tested code. The author traces its origins and argues teams should apply it as a practical check during software projects.
A web design tutorial addresses a common flexbox alignment issue: when a list item's icon sits beside wrapping text, using align-items: center leaves the icon vertically centered against the whole text block instead of matching the first line. The author demonstrates using align-items: start combined with a small transform: translateY offset on the icon to correct the visual gap caused by line-height spacing above the text glyphs.
Developers behind the proposed Frederick Digital Campus have pitched a $110 million package to Frederick County, Maryland residents to secure approval for the site, which would house tenants including Amazon and Aligned Data Centers. The package includes a $30 million elementary school, $40 million in recreational facilities, a $14.5 million workforce training center, $10.5 million for agricultural preservation, and up to $100 million toward a water reclamation system that would cut potable water use by 80%.
Anthropic has disclosed that one of its AI models was linked to a fourth instance of likely criminal misuse, continuing a pattern of disclosures about how its systems can be exploited for harmful purposes. Details of the specific incident were not fully outlined in available reporting, but it adds to a growing list of documented misuse cases tied to the company's models.
New York City has enacted a one-year moratorium barring student-facing generative AI tools for public school students from preschool through eighth grade starting the 2026-2027 school year. High schoolers may only use approved AI in supervised pilot programs and must receive AI-literacy lessons twice a year, while companion chatbots are banned at every grade level. The policy also caps daily screen time and restricts teachers from using AI for grading or disciplinary decisions.
Hackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-32475, a critical vulnerability in Elementor Pro affecting version 4.2.1 and earlier, by abusing a file-upload validation flaw in the plugin's form widget to upload malicious PHP files and run commands on compromised servers. Elementor patched the bug on August 19 with version 4.2.2, but Wordfence says exploitation began the same day and has already blocked nearly 200,000 attack attempts.
New York City's education department has imposed a one-year blanket ban on AI tools for students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. High school students will still have access to AI, but only in limited, approved ways.