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WordPress co-founder files countersuit against WP Engine over trademark violations
Automattic has filed counterclaims that detail why WP Engine allegedly violated WordPress trademarks.
Early blogging service Typepad is shutting down for good
Typepad, a blogging platform that launched in the same year as WordPress, has announced that it's shutting down on September 30.
WP Engine wins preliminary injunction in WordPress legal battle
A judge has issued an injunction ordering WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic to restore access to the WP Engine web hosting service.
159 employees leave WordPress founder's company after extortion lawsuit
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said WP Engine attacks on him have been effective enough so that "a good chunk of [his] Automattic colleagues disagreed with [him and his] actions."
WordPress founder sued for alleged libel and attempted extortion
WordPress founder sued by WP Engine for alleged libel and attempted extortion. This follows a public spat over the trademark.
Tumblr and WordPress posts will reportedly be used for OpenAI and Midjourney training
Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. The platforms’ parent company, Automattic, is nearing completion of an agreement to provide data to help train the AI companies’ models.
Tumblr’s staff is reportedly reduced to a skeleton crew
Tumblr, a flailing social media site from a bygone era, may be run by a skeleton crew from now on. An alleged internal memo from parent company Automattic has made the rounds on social platforms, stating it has “not gotten the expected results from our effort.”
WordPress' Jetpack AI will write your blog posts for you
Wordpress is getting an AI writing assistant of its own called Jetpack AI, and it's built into the content management system's editor.
Millions of WordPress sites receive forced patch for critical plugin flaw
Millions of WordPress sites have received a forced patch over the past few days due to a vulnerability in the popular UpdraftPlus plugin.
GoDaddy discloses recent security breach that exposed 1.2 million accounts
The hack relates to GoDaddy's WordPress hosting service.
Facebook now lets you transfer posts to Google Docs and Wordpress.com
Facebook's data tool now lets you transfer notes and posts to Google Docs, Blogger and Wordpress.
Apple won't force WordPress to offer in-app purchases
Apple is no longer pushing WordPress to include in-app purchases in its iOS app after an initial uproar.
Apple apparently blocked WordPress app updates to force IAP support
Apple's push to make sure developers aren't getting paid via apps without using its gateway (and providing the company a cut) apparently cut off updates to the WordPress app on iOS for a while.
Hackers are hiding virtual credit card skimmers in image file metadata
Sites using WooCommerce are being targeted by hackers as a way to steal credit card information.
It doesn’t matter if China hacked Equifax
On Monday the FBI and AG Barr announced "an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing Americans' personal data and Equifax's valuable trade secrets." China's military refutes the charges.
Phishing scams leveled up, and we didn’t
More than a bit of "I'm smarter than you" politics creates the divide between hacking headlines and what we actually need to worry about. On one side, researchers present findings at conferences hoping someone will raise the alarm and practical things will get done before things get worse. On the other, we have Jeff Bezos and his iPhone.
Verizon will sell Tumblr to the owner of WordPress
The rumors of Verizon selling Tumblr turned out to have merit. Verizon (Engadget's parent company) is selling the social network to Automattic, the company behind the blogging tool WordPress. It's not disclosing the size of the deal, but Automattic is taking on 200 employees as part of the exchange. Automattic chief Matt Mullenweg told the Wall Street Journal that this is his company's largest acquisition both in terms of cost and sheer staff count.
New Patreon tools help creators connect with backers
Running a Patreon page doesn't only entail creating for your audience: if you amass a lot of patrons, you'll also have to deal potentially time-consuming admin tasks. To make it easier to run a membership business, Patreon has introduced new tools called App Directory and Developer Portal. App Directory makes it easy to connect a variety of useful services to your Patreon page. For instance, if you have a WordPress-powered website, you can tie it up with your Patreon account in order to create patron-only posts.
Black Lives Matter site faced over 100 attacks in half a year
When you launch protests in the modern era, you don't just have to worry about aggressive responses on the streets... you have to worry about your online presence, too. Deflect Labs has determined that Black Lives Matter's official website was subject to over 100 botnet-based denial of service attacks between April 29th and October 15th, a large part of it coming from members of a Ghost Squad hacking collective that had vocally denounced BLM's campaign. And it didn't require many people, either. Just two culprits (who may be the same person) launched nearly a fifth of the attacks, one of which tried to flood the site with traffic using nearly 1 million bots.
WordPress blogs will soon support Facebook's Instant Articles
If you turn to Facebook for your daily news update, you may have come across Instant Articles. A small number of publishers are able to serve up news articles quickly for mobile devices right now, but from April 12th, the technology will be open to anyone --- including bloggers. In a bid to get communities on board, Facebook has teamed up with Automattic, the company behind the popular publishing software WordPress, to make it easy for writers all over the world to serve pages up to 10 times faster than they could before.