Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his ‘biggest failure’ so far

WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg recently described the company’s acquisition of Tumblr as his biggest failure, though he has not given up on it yet. He made these comments during a Town Hall session at the WordCamp Canada…

FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source

The Federal Trade Commission has removed three blog posts from the Lina Khan era that addressed open-source AI and risks of AI to consumers, according to a Wired report. One post, titled “On Open-Weights Foundation Models,” was published on July…

Amazon outage breaks much of the internet

An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services disrupted vast portions of the internet, including websites, banks, and some government services. Amazon stated that the outage was fully mitigated and that most services were returning to normal after an…