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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
Natalia Nowak · 29 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
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GitHub, Salesforce and SharePoint Went Down in Four Days. Nobody Attacked Them.
by Natalia Nowak · 22 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
A GitHub cleanup job saturated the database behind every authenticated request. A Salesforce legacy login service stalled during Dreamforce. A Microsoft configuration change blanked SharePoint pages. Three platforms, four days, and trouble that started inside a shared service path.
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AWS Cannot Restore Access to Data Kept Only in Bahrain or One UAE Zone
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Six months after both regions were damaged, AWS cannot restore access to resources and data hosted exclusively in Bahrain or in one UAE zone. Most customers migrated in time. For the rest, the only copy that counts is the one kept outside the region.
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Proton’s Frankfurt Outage Report: 20 Minutes to Critical, and Hardware Too Scarce to Sacrifice
by Natalia Nowak · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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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Namecheap’s Second Hosting Outage This Month Hits 78 Shared Servers
by Natalia Nowak · 27 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Namecheap's second hosting outage in 13 days hit 78 shared servers on August 26 and was resolved after two hours and twenty minutes of status updates. Unlike the Phoenix cooling failure, this one ended with no cause given.
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A Chiller Failure in Phoenix Took Down Namecheap, Liquid Web and phoenixNAP.
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Storms knocked out the chillers at RadiusDC's Phoenix site on August 13, and at least four providers went offline behind that failure. The operator's only detailed account appeared on a tenant's status page, and no reason-for-outage report has followed.
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