Flippa celebrated the six-figure sale of the Essential Plugin portfolio; eight months later the buyer activated a backdoor across 20,000+ WordPress sites using Googlebot cloaking and a C2 routed through an Ethereum smart contract.
Author: Łukasz Nowak
Nearly two decades in IT. A decade in web hosting - and still in the trenches. Writing about the infrastructure that runs the internet from the inside.
WP Engine's survey of 214 agencies finds the AI gap between leaders and laggards is already three times wide on client services, while one in six agencies says their clients are not asking for AI at all.
Cloudflare's 11% drop on April 9 was the opening move; Fastly fell 18% and Akamai 12% in the session that followed.
The WTO's 28-year moratorium on customs duties for digital transmissions lapsed on March 30 after MC14 in Yaoundé ended without a deal.
PrestaShop Announced a Formal Layoff Process Eight Weeks After Cyber_Folks Completed Its Acquisition
PrestaShop opened a formal French layoff process on April 10, eight weeks after Cyber_Folks completed its €53.7 million acquisition of the platform.
Cloudflare fell 11% on April 9 as Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents threatened the infrastructure layer Cloudflare spent two years building.
Virginia Democrats are deadlocked over their $1.6 billion data center tax exemption, with a budget-blocking special session set for April 23.
In 2025, GDPR regulators fined two data processors directly for the first time. Hosting companies processing EU customer data are now in scope.
CloudFest Americas and i2Coalition announced a formal partnership on April 9, making i2Coalition the Official Conference Partner of CloudFest Americas in North America and naming i2Coalition Executive Director Christian Dawson as Chief Evangelist of the event.
Full-year 2025 .com domain data shows GoDaddy registering 7.9 million new domains but finishing with roughly 1 million fewer under management than it started with. Namecheap gained approximately 1.9 million, the largest gain of any registrar.