The EU Just Aimed Its Gatekeeper Rules at AWS and Azure for the First Time, and It Used AI to Do It

The EU preliminarily named AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers on June 25, its first cloud case and first without the size thresholds, citing AI lock-in.

Team Internet Pursues £20M Damages Claim While Its Domain Division Goes to Market

Team Internet built $566M/year on Google AdSense for Domains. Now it's pursuing a £20M antitrust claim and selling its domain division.

We Tested Six Website Builder AIs With an Apple Pie Recipe. Not All of Them Are Actually AI.

We asked six AI website builder assistants for an apple pie recipe. Two answered, two refused, and two could not process the question at all.

Hostinger Promotes Its Product and Technology Chief to CEO as AI Becomes the Business

Hostinger promoted product and technology chief Giedrius Zakaitis to CEO, with Daugirdas Jankus moving to strategic initiatives.

Automattic Turns the WordPress Admin Into a Desktop Software

Automattic's Desktop Mode plugin turns /wp-admin into a windowed desktop OS. Built in three days during an internal sprint, it is already live on wordpress.org.

Why a Battery Room Fire in Delhi Disrupted Google Cloud Across Three Indian Cities

A Delhi data center fire isolated a Google Cloud POP on June 9, degrading connectivity across three Indian cities. The compute never went down.

Namecheap Ends Handshake TLD Support as Web3 Domain Projects Retreat

Namecheap halted Handshake TLD registrations on June 10. HNS is down 99% from its 2021 peak. Unstoppable Domains pivoted to traditional DNS.

Protect The Shire: WordPress Adds a 24-Hour Default Delay to Plugin Auto-Updates

WordPress.org made the 24-hour plugin auto-update delay default for every new release on June 5, 2026. Mullenweg calls it Protect The Shire.

SoftBank Pledged €75 Billion to Build AI Data Centers in France.

SoftBank's €45B firm commitment and €75B ceiling for AI data centers in France drove Choose France 2026 to a record €93B total. France's nuclear grid is the structural advantage. SoftBank's balance sheet is the open question.

SiteGround Auto-Installed Its AI Plugin on 1 Million Sites. Reviewers Gave It 1.1 Stars.

SiteGround auto-installed its AI Agent plugin on 1M+ WordPress sites timed to WordPress 7.0. The plugin's rating dropped to 1.1 stars within days.