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Short answer: yes. Automattic still employs thousands of people, still owns WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Pocket Casts and Beeper, and still collects revenue from all of them. Longer answer: it just spent two days with two different people claiming to run it, and the board …
I’m on the side of privacy. I think data brokers are a menace, and when Ireland fined Meta €1.2 billion in 2023 I didn’t lose a minute’s sleep. If …
Everything in this picture came out of the same hill. The vines grow in a thin skin of clay over limestone, the houses are cut from that limestone, …
The studio waited two weeks to say anything. Kusama died on August 14 in a Tokyo hospital, and the announcement came on the 27th, by which point the …
Pink News has proposed cutting up to eleven staff, its second round of redundancies this year, and the stated reason is a change in how the platform …
Three years into the argument about AI and content, publishers have sorted themselves into two strategies. One camp licenses. The other sues. A few …
The first thing everyone says is that it’s smaller than they expected. Roughly half a metre of bronze, set in a stone niche on the corner of Rue de …
Sylvester Stallone has launched a memoir covering five decades of Hollywood stardom, and the timing makes sense in ways that go beyond the commercial. …
A museum guide stands in front of Arearea and points. The group behind her looks where she directs them. This is how most people encounter Gauguin — …
There is a particular kind of afternoon that WordPress users know well. It begins with a minor irritation — an option that does not behave, a setting …
