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Mullenweg Retook Automattic in 33 Hours. The Board That Put Him on Leave Is Gone.

Natalia Nowak · 20 Oct 2026 · 5 min read

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Mullenweg's paid leave lasted 33 hours and 20 minutes. He is back as Automattic's chief executive, the directors who voted to sideline him have left, and a new board is in place. Fortune's reconstruction points to divisions over the WP Engine case, but no former director has explained the vote.

After More Than 60 Acquisitions, Your.Online Backs a Trust Services Company Built From Scratch

Natalia Nowak · 20 Oct 2026

M&A #consolidation#hosting-ma

Your.Online, a Dutch group with more than 60 acquisitions since 2017, is backing a new trust business built from scratch rather than buying one. Invicta Trust Services focuses on qualified trust services under eIDAS and is led by Patrick Beckman Lapré, who joins from QuoVadis.

Linux Kernel Flaw PwnEscape Lets a Virtual Machine Read Its Host’s Memory. Upstream Fixes Are Out.

Natalia Nowak · 16 Oct 2026

Security #cybersecurity#linux

PwnEscape, tracked as CVE-2026-99999, can let software inside a virtual machine read memory from the Linux host it runs on. It was demonstrated against Vercel's production sandboxes, and host takeover was shown on the researchers' own machines. Fixed kernels were released on October 15.

Instead of Doubling Its Servers, Hostinger Reworked Its CDN for Every Web Hosting Plan

Natalia Nowak · 15 Oct 2026

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Rather than double its server count, Hostinger reworked its CDN with ECDSA certificates, kernel TLS and smarter routing, cutting the computing it needs by up to half. The CDN is now included in all web hosting plans, and average response times fell from 965 to 714 milliseconds.

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InMotion Hosting Seeks a President and COO. Co-Founder Todd Robinson to Become CEO.

by Natalia Nowak · 12 Oct 2026 · 3 min read

InMotion Hosting is recruiting a president and COO to run the company from Q1 2027, as co-founder Todd Robinson prepares to become CEO. The aim is to double the business, and Robinson names missing execution fundamentals and his own stretched time as what holds it back.

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