WP Engine's DE{CODE} 2026 runs May 6 as a free virtual event, with separate broadcasts for EMEA (10 AM BST) and the US (11 AM EDT). Sessions cover WordPress 7.0, bot management, ACF, and headless architecture.
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Your.Cloud acquired Cloud Geeni, a UK managed service provider with 30 years of IT expertise, in its fourth UK acquisition, bringing its European portfolio to 40+ companies and more than 25,000 customers.
WordPress 7.0 is now scheduled. The core team published a revised plan on April 22 after a delay caused by unresolved issues in the real-time collaboration feature.
The industry has spent a year building tools to block AI crawlers. Cloudflare's new readiness score asks the opposite question: is your site ready to work with agents? Only 4% of the top 200,000 domains are.
Cloudflare's Registrar API, in beta since April 15, lets AI agents register domains without human approval. Domain registration is becoming an automated infrastructure step.
Cloudflare's Agents Week, April 12-17, 2026, produced more than 20 announcements spanning compute, storage, networking, browser, email, voice, and developer tooling. The week followed Anthropic's April 8 managed agent launch and an 11 percent Cloudflare stock decline two days later.
Unstoppable Domains' 10 new ICANN registrar entities are for drop-catching advantages, not the new gTLD round, while the company that built its name on blockchain domains now runs a traditional registrar business and brokers gTLD applications for Web3 organizations including .agent, .blockchain, and .agi.
Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents on April 8 as a hosted runtime for agent sandboxing, checkpointing, and credential management at $0.08 per session-hour. Two days later, infrastructure stocks fell 11 to 18 percent.
Let's Encrypt replaces its root certificate hierarchy on May 13, closes client authentication support permanently on July 8, and hosting operators have less than four weeks to verify their renewal automation handles the transition.
Cloudflare is sending over one billion 402 responses daily to AI crawlers. A partnership with GoDaddy brings the same allow-block-charge controls to GoDaddy's 20 million customers without a separate Cloudflare account.