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Matt Mullenweg has posted a message to Automattic’s Slack, claiming he is back in control as CEO of the WordPress.com parent company, according to a screenshot of the message seen by TechCrunch, which was confirmed by two sources. The post arrives only days after Automattic’s board voted to oust Mullenweg as CEO for unknown reasons.

With the resignation of yet another whistleblower within the AI industry and growing concerns over the threat this technology poses to humanity, Governor JB Pritzker today demanded immediate action from the Big Tech industry, Congress, and the federal government

Hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor is warning customers for the second time in as many months that one of the companies it relies on was hacked, exposing the data of Trezor’s customers to hackers.

When I think about Bose headphones, the iconic QuietComfort line immediately comes to mind. No, not the more recent Ultra version with all of today’s bells and whistles. I’m talking about the business-traveler-chic models that popularized active noise cancellation (ANC). They were never going to win any design contests, but you could rely on them…

Apple is launching a new feature called iPhone Handoff with iOS 27 that will give you a way to use the same eSIM number on two devices. It will initially be available to T-Mobile customers in the US and to Deutsche Telekom users in Germany. Now, T-Mobile has announced that it will cost subscribers an additional $5…

If the name Packard Bell sends you back to beige desktop towers, chunky CRT monitors, floppy disks and the screech of a dial-up modem, Acer has a surprise for you. The PC brand that was seemingly forever attached to American electronics stores in the ’90s got a full relaunch at IFA 2026, with lots of orange, purple, green…

GymKit never became as popular as it should have, but great compatibility could fix that.

ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack.

The two organizations are also releasing a dataset researchers can use to make their own models.

I wasn’t expecting Apple to have a ton of interesting updates to the Apple Watch this year, but somehow it managed to surprise me. Some of the new features coming to the Apple Watch Series 12 are things the competition has already offered, like Readiness scores and increased sampling rates. But others, like the Audio…