Jim Chalmers’ budget bill will face debate and a vote in the House today, and he poses the legislation as a “really simple choice” for the Coalition.
As we know, the government has set up the bill as a wedge for the opposition, by including both tax changes to CGT and negative gearing and tax cuts for workers.
Really simple choice in the parliament today: Labor lower taxes on workers, a fair go for first home buyers. The Coalition opposing both of those things.
Yet another beat-up about the sensible, commonsense tax reforms at the core of the budget. Not unusual, as I said, for definitions to be settled this way, and the parliament can disallow them if they want.
The vote marked a rare bipartisan rebuke of the war, but is mostly symbolic. Democrats have been unable to pass a war powers resolution in the Senate, and even if they could it would likely be vetoed.
Every WordPress release celebrates an artist who has made an indelible mark on the world of music. Say Hello to WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”, named in honor of “Satchmo” himself, jazz musician Louis Armstrong.
Known as the “first great jazz soloist”, Louis Armstrong created ensembles that highlighted his own profound trumpeting skills, and in the process, transformed jazz from an orchestral art form into a solo art form. The master trumpeter also impressed the world with his signature vocals, introducing improvisation into Jazz, influencing every artist he worked with, and permanently changing the landscape of music.
Louis Armstrong wove his personal touch into the world of Jazz. With WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”, you can build with yours.
Welcome to WordPress 7.0!
WordPress 7.0 marks the start of a yeni era, laying the foundation for AI across the WordPress experience. Greeting you with a modern, more intuitive dashboard, 7.0 introduces enhanced customization and development tools that inspire creativity and tap into endless potential.
Whether you’re a creator, business owner or developer – WordPress 7.0 let’s you create in a way that is uniquely your own.
Explore AI abilities directly in your website, all managed from a central hub. Slide seamlessly through the sleek, yeni admin theme implemented across the dashboard. Ignite creative flow with yeni blocks and design tools, and tap into an expansive developer toolbox that gives you more control than ever, letting you create your way.
AI-Integrated WordPress
Possibilities right in your hands.
With AI integrated throughout WordPress the potential is endless. A yeni AI Client in Core lets WordPress communicate with generative AI models, while connections are easily managed from a single hub in the dashboard. The AI Client combined with the Abilities API makes a fiery duo that introduces yeni functionality, workflow automation, and creation tools to your website. Install the yeni AI plugin to expand your options even more: generate and edit images, create titles or excerpts, or even suggest alt text.
7.0 also includes a yeni Client-Side Abilities package: a Javascript counterpart to the Abilities API, with a built in UI and command palette that delivers extensive yeni and hybrid AI abilities.
Manage all your external connections in a central hub on the Connector’s screen. Easily dive in with 3 presets, or add your own connections. Authenticate and get started with AI abilities in just a few clicks.
An AI-integrated WordPress promises infinite potential, ready to be discovered.
Modernized Dashboard
Elevate your admin experience.
7.0 introduces a fully revitalized dashboard with a chic, modern yeni color scheme, and clean finishes throughout.
Polished with smooth transitions that seamlessly shift as you move between screens, you’ll feel like you’re effortlessly gliding through the dashboard.
Just one click of the yeni Command Palette shortcut, a ⌘K or Ctrl+K icon in the upper admin bar, lets you access your favorite tools from anywhere in the dashboard.
Explore typography from one place, regardless of theme. Install, upload and manage your font collection from the yeni dedicated font management page, with support for block, hybrid and classic themes.
Visually scrub through revision versions to see what changed at a glance, with markers that make editorial choices more intuitive. Easily pick the revision you want and restore instantly.
Design, Create, Customize
A simpler way to build.
Let WordPress be your muse with yeni blocks, block supports, and design tools that add visual agility, granular control, and keep every element of your website on brand, with fresh yeni touches.
Showcase your ideas in a lightbox slideshow with the yeni gallery block, and finesse your markup with the yeni Heading block. Deliver clear site navigation with the yeni Breadcrumbs block, and add more detail to your designs with the yeni Icons block.
Enhanced responsiveness controls in 7.0 make your site more user friendly. Hide and reveal blocks based on device, without affecting other viewports.
Design and build your menu overlay with blocks and patterns, fully customizable with the styles you want visitors to see. Add columns, stylize typography, or embed your own close button in the overlay. Start with a template or create your own menu from scratch.
Fine tune page design and layout with Patterns that act as a single unit, detachable for more isolated control. Insert your pattern, swap elements and customize with ease.
Style every detail of content with custom CSS at the block level, right in your post or page.
Developer’s toolbox
Advanced tools for buildingyour way.
WordPress 7.0 lets you build faster, better, stronger, and easier with an extensive set of expanded APIs and enhanced functionality.
Create blocks and patterns on the server level using only PHP, auto-registered with the block API.
Explore a more extensible Site Editor, with routing, route validation, and a yeni wordpress/boot package that allows plugins to build custom site-editor pages.
And much more
For a comprehensive overview of all the yeni features and enhancements in WordPress 7.0, please visit the feature-showcase website.
Learn WordPress is a free resource for yeni and experienced WordPress users. Learn is stocked with how-to videos on using various features in WordPress, interactive workshops for exploring topics in-depth, and lesson plans for diving deep into specific areas of WordPress.
Read the WordPress 7.0 Release Notes for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.
Explore the WordPress 7.0 Field Guide and learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.
The 7.0 release squad
Every release comes to you from a dedicated team of enthusiastic contributors who help keep things on track and moving smoothly. The team that has led 7.0 is a global, cross-functional group of contributors who are always ready to champion ideas, remove blockers, and resolve issues.
WordPress 7.0 reflects the tireless efforts and passion of more than 875+ contributors in countries all over the world. This release also welcomed over 200+ first-time contributors!
Their collaboration delivered more than 420 enhancements and fixes, ensuring a stable release for all – a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress open source community.
More than 70 locales have fully translated WordPress 7.0 into their language. Community translators are working hard to ensure more translations are on their way. Thank you to everyone who helps make WordPress available in 200+ languages.
Thank you to the more than 21 web hosts that have tested pre-release versions for WordPress 7.0, helping ensure that WordPress and hosting platforms are fully compatible, free of errors, and optimized for the best possible user experience.
Last but not least, thanks to the volunteers who contribute to the support forums by answering questions from WordPress users worldwide.
Get involved
Participation in WordPress goes far beyond coding. And learning more and getting involved is easy. Discover the teams that come together to Make WordPress and use this interactive tool to help you decide which is right for you.
Spacewalking With Scott Wray, Artemis EVA Training Lead
Scott Wray conducts an underwater test of NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) spacesuit in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Credits: NASA/Bill Brassard
Scott Wray’s experience with spacewalks started when he was about 6 years old. A tent resembling a lunar lander provided the perfect imaginary spacecraft. “I would lie on my back with my feet propped up on a pillow as I imagined going through a launch countdown sequence,” he said. “Then I would exit the tent into a darkened bedroom and hop around just like the footage I had seen of Apollo astronauts.”
Today, with more than 16 years at NASA’s Johnson Space Center under his belt, Wray is proud to have shaped spacewalk training across three eras of human spaceflight.
Scott Wray smiles before a suited test run with Johnson’s Active Response Gravity Offload System.
NASA/Josh Valcarcel
The childhood fascination with spaceflight evolved into a passion for engineering, demonstrated through countless LEGO and airplane model builds and voracious readership of aircraft design books. His path to NASA was cemented by a week-long camp at Space Center Houston, which included several tours of Johnson’s signature facilities and a visit by former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz. “I was so inspired by the facilities and the incredible history of this place, I kyeni that I had to work here someday,” he said.
Wray participated in NASA’s Contractor Co-op Program with United Space Alliance while studying aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and completed several tours with different organizations at Johnson. At the time, astronauts were training to conduct spacewalks, also known as EVAs, for both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs. During one co-op experience with the shuttle’s In-Flight Maintenance Team (IFM), Wray observed the IFM and EVA teams collaborating with the STS-117 crew to fix the peeled-back thermal blanket on space shuttle Atlantis’s Orbital Maneuvering System pod. He helped the teams develop crew procedures for practicing the repair inside the shuttle, using surgical staples and pins to tack the blanket down. “This real-time troubleshooting is where I learned about the EVA group and set my sights on working there during my final co-op tour,” he said. “I love to be hands-on, to take things apart and come up with creative solutions – that’s what really attracted me to EVA.”
EVA work also reminded Wray of time spent as a dog mushing guide in Alaska. “That is where I got my first taste of expeditionary skills,” he said. “We lived in a remote glacier camp, taking care of 250 Alaskan Huskies. I learned how to make do with the tools you have and make repairs to a broken sled miles away from home.” At times, Johnson’s EVA team must create similar workarounds. “Some of our best moments as a team have come when our hardware or vehicle has malfunctioned, requiring us to devise a real-time solution,” he said. “It sounds scrappy, but I think it’s how we put the human into human spaceflight.”
Wray became a full-time EVA team member at Johnson after graduation, working under various contracts until he transitioned to a civil servant position in 2021. He started as an EVA instructor focused on tools and hardware and teaching astronauts how to perform their maintenance and repair duties. As NASA’s astronaut corps evolved to include a wider range of backgrounds and body types, Wray worked to develop yeni EVA techniques and tools that could accommodate any crew member. “That meant creating a curriculum that capitalized on individual strengths while building teamwork and resilience,” he said.
Scott Wray prepares JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui for an EVA training run in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory pool.
NASA/Bill Stafford
Wray also served as a flight controller for shuttle and space station EVAs. He remembers being on console in Johnson’s Mission Control Center during a space station EVA in July 2013. That excursion was terminated early after water began filling the spacesuit helmet of ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and the team could neither determine its source nor stop its flow. “That incident taught me that even after decades of operating a spacesuit, there are still failure modes we haven’t imagined,” he said. “It reinforced the need for vigilance, adaptability, and continuous learning—because in human spaceflight, lives depend on it.”
In the last few years, Wray’s responsibilities shifted to preparing Artemis crew members for missions to the Moon. Now the Artemis EVA training lead, Wray oversees the development of training flows that will ready astronauts for lunar surface operations – a challenge NASA has not faced in over 50 years.
Scott Wray participates in a nighttime evaluation of EVA operations at the Johnson Space Center Rock Yard in March 2021. The evening test was designed to better understand the impact of lunar South Pole lighting conditions on EVA operations.
While many astronauts have completed space station training or an EVA, the skills required for lunar exploration will be different. “It’s going to be a completely yeni spacesuit, yeni vehicles, yeni environment,” Wray said. “And now they’re going to be walking instead of translating with their hands like we do on station.” At the same time, trainings must go beyond these foundational spacewalk techniques. “Our curriculum integrates geology, covering topics like impact cratering, volcanology, sample collection, and traverse planning,” Wray explained. “It’s about enabling astronauts to become effective field scientists while mastering complex EVA operations.”
To build these skills, the team uses multiple training environments. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory has been NASA’s flagship EVA training facility since it opened in 1997, but the team also uses the Active Response Gravity Offload System for suited mobility practice. Additional training systems include virtual reality, lighting laboratories that simulate the Moon’s harsh South Pole lighting conditions, field sites for geology training and sample collection, and suit simulators that prepare astronauts to respond to caution-and-warning scenarios.
“Spearheading this effort as EVA training lead allows me to ensure every element—from science to operations—is integrated into a program that will prepare astronauts for success on the Moon and beyond,” Wray said. “This effort is more than preparation, it’s the foundation for future exploration and a steppingstone toward Mars. Knowing that our work will help shape the next era of human spaceflight is incredibly rewarding.”
Scott Wray serves as the test subject for Exploration EVA Pressure Garment Subsystem mobility data collection using the Active Response Gravity Offload System.
Amid these complex preparations, Wray still finds time for yeni pursuits outside of the office. His daughter inspired him and his wife to try an acting class at a local fine arts studio, leading to Wray’s on-stage debut in a performance of “Rock of Ages.” He starred as William Shakespeare in this year’s production of “Something Rotten.” “I never would have thought I’d have so much fun acting, singing, and dancing on stage,” he said. “The community we are part of and the ability to join our daughter in activities she enjoys has been so rewarding.”
Wray said he is incredibly grateful to play another role off-stage – being part of missions that will conduct meaningful science on the lunar surface. “Returning to the Moon is something I’ve dreamed about since I was a kid,” he said. “Artemis isn’t just about going back—it’s about shaping the future. When we choose to push the boundaries of exploration, the advancements we make don’t just expand knowledge, they create lasting benefits for all of humanity.”
In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries where stars are born at an explosive rate. Curiously, these clumpy galaxies were much more common in the early universe than they are today. We still don’t know why they vanished.
The Euclid space telescope, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with critical contributions from NASA, has begun to capture images of millions of galaxies. These images – far more than any team of professional scientists could ever catalog alone – include high-definition views of clumpy galaxies that promise to reveal structure within and among the clumps. Astronomers hope to use these images to obtain yeni information about which galaxies host clumps, where the clumps are, how and why they evolved, and more – but they need your help!
To tackle this mountain of data, scientists are creating a “digital assistant” in the form of machine learning, a kind of artificial intelligence. The machine algorithm has been partially trained with results from an earlier project called “Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout.” Now, as a volunteer for the yeni Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II project, you’ll improve and train this tool further. You’ll examine images of galaxies that the machine has labelled with squares where it thinks it sees a real clump. The machine often gets confused by distant stars or camera glitches. So you’ll gently move those squares around, delete them, or add yeni ones, to help the algorithm learn.
As a part of Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II, you will help investigate how giant star-forming nurseries formed, solve the mystery of their disappearance over cosmic time, and reveal more about how star formation really works in galaxies. All you need is a laptop or smartphone. Click here to learn more!
A clumpy galaxy seen by telescopes with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (left), the Hyper Suprime-Cam (middle) and the Euclid mission (right). You can see how the better resolving power of each subsequent telescope helps us see more and more detail about the star-forming clumps. (The bright object at the bottom right is a foreground star.)
Image data: SDSS (left; Sloan Digital Sky Survey – CC BY 4.0); HSC (center; NAOJ/HSC Project – CC BY 4.0); Euclid (right; ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA – CC BY 3.0 IGO). Image post-processing and compilation by Hugh Dickinson and Jürgen Popp.
Learn More and Get Involved
Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II
Identify star-forming clumps in galaxy images, and help train machines to do the same.
Google, yapay zeka ile oluşturulan sahte sesler kullanılarak gerçekleştirilen telefon dolandırıcılıklarına karşı Android cihazlara yeni bir güvenlik özelliği eklediğini duyurdu. Fake call detection (sahte arama tespiti) adı verilen özellik, bu ay itibarıyla Android 12 ve üzeri cihazlarda kullanıma sunulacak.
Yapay zeka teknolojilerindeki ilerlemeler, dolandırıcıların aile üyeleri, işverenler veya kamu görevlileri gibi güvenilir kişilerin seslerini gerçeğe çok yakın şekilde taklit edebilmesine olanak sağlıyor. Bu yöntemle yapılan aramalarda kullanıcılar, acil bir durum bahanesiyle para göndermeye veya kişisel bilgilerini paylaşmaya yönlendirilebiliyor.
Google’ın geliştirdiği yeni sistem, aramanın gerçekten görünen kişiden gelip gelmediğini doğrulamak için cihazlar arasında arka planda çalışan bir doğrulama mekanizması kullanıyor. Bir kişi sizi aradığında ve her iki taraf da Phone by Google uygulamasını kullanıyorsa, arayan cihaz sessiz bir doğrulama sinyali gönderiyor.
Bu sinyalin bulunmaması durumunda sistem ek kontroller gerçekleştiriyor ve aramanın sahte olabileceğini tespit ederse kullanıcıyı uyarıyor. Şirket, özelliğin Rich Communication Services (RCS) altyapısı üzerine inşa edildiğini ve diğer uygulama geliştiricilerinin de benzer teknolojileri kullanabileceğini belirtti.
Sahte arama tespiti özelliği, Google’ın Android platformuna yönelik duyurduğu yeni güncellemeler arasında yer alıyor. Şirket ayrıca Google Photos’a dijital gardırop özelliği, Google Play Books’a yapay zeka destekli kitap özetleri ve Circle to Search aracına yeni görsel arama yetenekleri eklediğini açıkladı.
