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READ MORE āOnly 4% of Americans Think Data Centers Are Good. Here's Why That Matters for Your Hosting Bill.
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READ MORE āMatt Mullenweg Got Ousted, Took Over Slack, and Got His Job Back. All in Three Days.
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On August 13, 2026 WordPress shipped an official browser extension for Chrome and Safari. It hides the admin bar, gives you site shortcuts, and includes developā¦
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READ MORE āClaude Now Watermarks Every Word It Writes. The EU Made It Happen.
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READ MORE āWordPress 7.1 Just Dropped Responsive Styles Into Core. No More Custom CSS Media Queries.
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READ MORE āAnthropic Set 45 AI Agents Loose on the Same Codebase. They Found 266 Bugs ā and Then Things Got Weird.
Anthropic published multi-agent research on August 13 showing coordinated AI swarms finding 12x more vulnerabilities than solo agents ā but also colluding on prā¦
READ MORE āMeta Just Released a 30B Agent Model You Can Run on Your Laptop. For Free.
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READ MORE ān8n Just Made AI Agents Reusable. Here's Why That Changes Everything.
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READ MORE āWordPress Shipped an Official Browser Extension. It Hides the Admin Bar.
The official WordPress Browser Extension launched August 13 for Chrome and Safari. It hides the admin bar, detects WordPress sites, and includes dev tools ā allā¦
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READ MORE āOpenAI Cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%. Three Weeks After Launch.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna prices 80% and Terra 20% on July 30, just three weeks after launch. Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens. Here's what changā¦
READ MORE āWordPress 7.1 Lands August 19. Responsive Blocks and the SVG Icon API Are the Real Story.
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READ MORE āWordCamp US 2026 Starts Sunday. WordPress Is Betting Big on AI Agents.
WordCamp US kicks off August 16 in Phoenix with a dedicated AI track, 50+ sessions, and WordPress 7.1 dropping on the final day. Here's what to watch.ā¦
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WordPress 7.1 drops August 19 at WordCamp US. Responsive styling, hover states, new blocks, and a real media overhaul ā here's what's worth your time.ā¦
READ MORE āWordPress 7.0.3 Dropped August 6. The Login Screen XSS Is the One to Worry About.
WordPress 7.0.3 patches 12 security flaws, including a pre-auth XSS on the login screen (CVE-2026-64638) that can escalate to PHP code execution. Update now.ā¦
READ MORE āOne WooCommerce Plugin, Three CVEs in One Day. Here's What Got Leaked.
The Subscriptions for WooCommerce plugin dropped three CVEs on August 7 ā an IDOR exposing customer data, a privilege escalation, and a PayPal payment validatioā¦
READ MORE āAI Coding Hit $12.8 Billion and 85% Adoption. The Security Numbers Tell a Different Story.
The AI coding market crossed $12.8B in 2026. 85% of developers use these tools daily. Claude Opus 5 scores 96% on SWE-bench. But code security pass rates are flā¦
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READ MORE āWordPress Dropped Two Releases in Two Days. The Security Patch Can't Wait.
WordPress 7.0.3 shipped August 6 with 12 security fixes including a pre-auth XSS on the login screen that can escalate to PHP code execution. 7.1 RC1 landed theā¦
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READ MORE āWooCommerce 11.0 Dropped Two Days Ago. Here's What Actually Changed and What Might Break.
WooCommerce 11.0 shipped August 4 after a one-week delay caused by a fatal error in RC1. 551 pull requests, guest order claiming, analytics fixes, and a quiet sā¦
READ MORE ān8n Webhooks Are the New Phishing Infrastructure ā And Your Email Gatekeeper Can't Tell the Difference
Cisco Talos measured a 686% rise in phishing campaigns using n8n webhook URLs between January 2025 and March 2026. The attack turns legitimate automation infrasā¦
READ MORE āOpen-Weight AI Models Are China's Best Move ā And the US Just Got the Memo
Hugging Face's CEO says China is winning the AI race through open models, while US labs build in silos. After an OpenAI agent hacked Hugging Face and only a Chiā¦
READ MORE āWordPress 7.1 RC1 Drops Tomorrow ā And Responsive Styling Without CSS Is Finally Here
WordPress 7.1 RC1 ships August 5, with the full release landing August 19 at WordCamp US. Responsive and hover styling become editor controls, two new blocks arā¦
READ MORE āOpenAI's Astra Solved 10 Unsolved Math Problems. The Total Cost Was $2,000.
On August 1, OpenAI revealed that its unreleased Astra model solved ten long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The solutioā¦
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On July 17, 2026, a two-bug chain called WP2Shell gave anonymous attackers full remote code execution on default WordPress installs. Here is how it works and whā¦
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WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 landed July 15 with a native Tabs block, responsive styling without CSS, and a Notes system that borrows from Google Docs. Final release drā¦
READ MORE āChatGPT Now Reads Your Lab Results: Health in ChatGPT Launches With Apple Health and Medical Records
On July 23, OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT to all US users. Connect Apple Health or medical records and ChatGPT can contextualize lab results, track changes,ā¦
READ MORE āWordPress 7.1 Beta 1: Responsive Styling, Notes, and the Editor That Finally Feels Finished
WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 shipped July 15 with responsive styling in the editor, real collaboration via Notes, browser-based media processing, and a release date of ā¦
READ MORE āGovernment-Gated AI: The US Now Decides Who Gets the Best Models
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READ MORE āThe Classic Block Survived: WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 and the U-Turn Nobody Expected
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CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 combine into an unauthenticated remote code execution chain affecting every WordPress install since 6.9. Patches landed July 1ā¦
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READ MORE āWordPress 7.0 Dropped Two Months Ago. Have You Updated Yet?
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READ MORE āMake.com Just Made Your n8n Workflows Visible. Here's Why That Matters.
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READ MORE āWordPress Has a Pre-Auth RCE Problem Called wp2shell. Update Now.
Two chained vulnerabilities in WordPress core ā CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 ā let unauthenticated attackers take full control of any site running 6.8 throā¦
READ MORE āGPT-5.6 Shipped on July 9. Here's What Actually Changed.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on July 9. The benchmarks are strong, but the real story is pricing, parallel agents, and a safety flag you should ā¦
READ MORE āWordPress Is Shipping an AI Client in Core. Streaming and Embeddings Land in 7.1.
WordPress 7.0 shipped a provider-agnostic AI Client in core. Version 7.1 adds streaming responses and vector embeddings. Here's what that means if you build pluā¦
READ MORE āWordPress Patched a Pre-Auth RCE on July 17. If You Haven't Updated, You're Already Behind.
CVE-2026-63030 lets unauthenticated attackers run arbitrary code on default WordPress installs via the REST API. Here's what happened and what to do right now.ā¦
READ MORE āPipedrive's V1 API Dies July 31. Here's How to Save Your Automations.
Pipedrive is killing its V1 API on July 31, 2026. If you use Pipedrive with Zapier, Make, or n8n, your workflows will stop working unless you update them now.ā¦
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READ MORE āZapier's AI Pricing Just Changed. Here's What It Actually Costs Now.
Zapier switched AI by Zapier to model-tier pricing on June 15. The cost difference between a simple prompt and a tool-heavy workflow is now 15x. Here's how to nā¦
READ MORE āWordPress 7.1 Is Teaching AI to Follow Your Style Guide
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