Wordpress

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  WordPress Adds Write Brief With AI Tool Which Lets Users Make the Content More Precise

  WordPress, the major web content management system, added a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool for the self-hosted WordPress sites on Tuesday. Dubbed Write Brief with AI, the tool was launched by WordPress’ parent company Automattic. The AI tool assists users in making long winded sentences shorter and more readable, as well as enhances the co...

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  Tumblr, WordPress Plan to Sell User Data to OpenAI and Midjourney to Train AI Models: Report

  Tumblr and WordPress users might soon find that their data is being used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, as per a report. Allegedly, the parent company of the blog sites, Automattic, has struck deals with OpenAI and Midjourney to sell user-generated public content to help train their AI model.

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  WordPress Security Plugin Wordfence Blocked Over 4.6 Million Attacks in a Month: Report

  Wordfence has announced that it blocked over 4.6 million cyber attacks in a month. The attacks exploited a zero-day vulnerability and were carried out against more than 2,80,000 sites running the WPGateway plugin.

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  GoDaddy Security Breach Exposes 1.2 million WordPress Users' Data

  GoDaddy said email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had been exposed in an unauthorised third-party access.

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  GoDaddy Security Breach Exposes 1.2 Million WordPress Users' Data

  Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc said on Monday email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had been exposed in an unauthorized third-party access.

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  Apple Blocked Updates to Free Wordpress App Until It Added In-App Purchases: Matt Mullenweg

  Wordpress for iOS finally received a new update yesterday after a period of almost a month. Turns out, the Automattic team that runs the app as well as popular Wordpress.com blogging service was blocked by Apple from pushing new app updates as it was not offering an in-app purchase option for Wordpress.com’s paid plans and domain purchases, the c...

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  Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress Owner

  Verizon is selling Tumblr, a darling of early social media, to the owner of blogging platform WordPress.

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  Google Partners Automattic, WordPress to Create 'Newspack' Publishing Platform for Local News Publishers

  Newspack is a fast, secure, low-cost publishing system tailor-made to the needs of small newsrooms, Google said in a statement on Monday.

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  Blog Compass Is Google's Latest App for India, Currently Available in Beta

  Blog Compass is currently available in open beta and can be used by English and Hindi speaking users in the country.

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  WordPress.com for Google Docs Plugin Finally Allows Collaborative Editing on WordPress

  The new plugin provides users with the capability to work collectively on certain pieces in real-time and saves users from the usual copy and paste routine.

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  Facebook Launches WordPress Plugin for Instant Articles

  Instant Articles will be opened to all publishers at Facebook's F8 conference in San Francisco on April 12.

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  Alto's Adventure, 1Password 6, Pushbullet 3.0, and Other Apps You Need

  This week has some great games for Android, and some excellent apps for iOS too

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  PHP 7 With Improved CPU and Memory Optimisation Released

  The new version of the popular side scripting language promises to offer a 100-percent-plus performance improvements in full-stack applications.

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  WordPress 4.2.3 Update Released to Patch a Major XSS Vulnerability

  The XSS vulnerability in question could have been exploited by any user marked "author" or "contributor" to fully compromise the site's security.

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  WordPress Vulnerability Affects Millions of Websites; Fix Issued

  The genericons package used by default WordPress themes leave the site open to cross-site scripting vulnerability.