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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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Proton’s Frankfurt Outage Report: 20 Minutes to Critical, and Hardware Too Scarce to Sacrifice
Proton's outage report is direct about what went wrong: a night-time filter change on both compressors killed the cooling, AI-era density cut the time-to-critical from hours to 20 minutes, and engineers chose to power servers down rather than lose hardware the AI boom has made hard to replace.
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Melbicom Prices Its Premium CDN by Zone: EUR 0.03 per GB in 55 Territories, Up to 0.15 Elsewhere
Melbicom's new CDN pairs a 39-PoP Premium network with a 12-PoP Volume lane reaching EUR 0.002 per GB. The zone map sets Premium's destination rate: 55 territories at the entry 0.03, delivery to the other 196 costs more. Cache-fill is free, the company told us; the published terms state no SLA.
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Researchers Found Six Major CDNs Vulnerable to New HTTP/3 Attacks. Two Deployed Mitigations.
New research turns a CDN against the site behind it by exploiting the gap between HTTP/3 at the front and HTTP/1.1 at the back. All six CDNs tested were vulnerable, only Baidu and Tencent have deployed mitigations, and every proposed fix sits at the CDN rather than at the site.
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When 64GB of RAM Costs €3,000: The Shortage Behind Hostinger’s Biggest Server Order
Server costs up 5-6x, components up to 8x, lead times at 30 weeks: Hostinger explains its largest hardware order in our Q&A. COO Aivaras Šimkus on €3,000 RAM, scaling from 5 to 7 million customers, and why certainty is now the main advantage.
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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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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fix the Data-Center Queue
FERC's June 18 orders give six US grid operators 60 days to fix large-load interconnection, including the cost-shift fight over whether data centers or ratepayers fund grid upgrades. For hosting, the queue is the binding constraint on compute supply.