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Most of Hostinger’s Hardest Support Cases No Longer Transfer to a Human. The Human Coaches the AI Instead.

Natalia Nowak · 9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read

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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.

Natalia Nowak · 10 Sep 2026

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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.

Natalia Nowak · 8 Sep 2026

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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.

Natalia Nowak · 4 Sep 2026

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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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Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.

by Natalia Nowak · 10 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

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.

#automattic #matt-mullenweg #wordpress