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Most of Hostinger’s Hardest Support Cases No Longer Transfer to a Human. The Human Coaches the AI Instead.
Hostinger has merged its support assistant Kodee with its marketing and SEO agents into Hostinger Agent. The bigger change is behind it: on the one conversation in ten the AI cannot settle alone, a specialist advises it instead of taking over, and hard-case resolution rose from 41 to 72 percent.
Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
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Automattic's board has put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, with chief financial officer Mark Davies as interim chief executive. The change stops at the commercial company: no change has been announced to his leadership of the WordPress project or to his control of WordPress.org.
Non-Developers Are Building Whole Websites With AI. 20i’s Survey Says Only 31.5% Get a Developer’s Review.
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A survey of 600 US non-developers who use AI to write code found 16.3 percent building entire websites, 61 percent testing the results themselves and 31.5 percent having a developer review the code. Separate laboratory testing puts the flaw rate near half.
WHMCS Has an Unauthenticated RCE. The Fix Exists Only for 9.0.8 and 8.13.7.
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Two WHMCS advisories on September 3: an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw affecting every build since 8.0, and a 2CheckOut gateway flaw exposing client data in versions from 4.5. Both are fixed in 9.0.8 and 8.13.7, and nothing older gets a patch.
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One of the Largest Planned Data Centers Died on a Notice Technicality
QTS has withdrawn its final appeal and terminated the Prince William Digital Gateway, a 2,100-acre Northern Virginia campus. Courts voided its rezoning after the county's newspaper notices failed state and local notice rules, ending one of the largest data center projects ever planned.
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Google’s TPUs Get a Blackstone-Funded Cloud of Their Own
Google and Blackstone are standing up a separate US company, majority-owned by Blackstone, to build data centers and sell Google's TPU chips as merchant compute beyond Google Cloud. Blackstone is committing $5 billion in equity toward 500 MW by 2027, and late-June hires for a COO and CTO show the venture being built from the ground up at pace.