From The Verge: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg offered employees $30,000, or six months of salary, to leave the company if they didn’t agree with his battle against WP Engine. In an update on Thursday night, Mullenweg said 159 people, making up 8.4 percent of the company, took the offer.

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From PC Mag: Texas is suing social video platform TikTok over children's privacy, claiming the app is sharing and selling minors' personal information in a way that violates the state's Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act (SCOPE Act). TikTok is also being accused of violating...

From PC World: Austria-based Noctua has become a fan favorite for its high-quality cooling products and understated style. The company has been banking on that goodwill to spread its silent wings into new product lines, like partnering with Asus on brown graphics cards and even making keycaps and a...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR is thrilled to announce two new additions to its K70 CORE series: K70 CORE TKL and K70 CORE TKL WIRELESS. A fresh tenkeyless profile meets the smooth typefeel and premier performance of the original K70 CORE, for versatile gaming that never runs out of deskspace...

From The Verge: Tesla issued a recall notice for the Cybertruck due to faulty software causing a slow-to-display rear camera feed. It’s the fifth recall for the polarizing electric truck since Tesla started customer deliveries last November. Other recalls have involved faulty wipers, loose trim, and...

From PC Mag: Office 2024 is now available for a one-time purchase on Mac and Windows.

Office 2024 includes the usual Microsoft apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) and costs $149.99 for one PC or Mac. For another $100, you can get Office Home & Business 2024, which includes Outlook and the...

From PC World: Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer and more accessible.

The World Wide Web Foundation was founded in 2009 by Tim Berners-Lee, the...

From PC Mag: Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it fended off a record-breaking DDoS attack that reached a whopping 3.8Tbps.

The attack exceeds the 3.47Tbps DDoS that Microsoft encountered in November 2021, the previous record holder. In both cases, the hackers launched a “volumetric...

From PC World: Nvidia has been pushing its new app — creatively called the Nvidia App — since February of this year. Nvidia says it “intends to migrate all remaining GeForce Experience users to the new Nvidia App when it exits beta before the end of the year.” So if you’ve been resisting the switch...

From CNET: Amazon-owned Ring, which offers a range of home cameras and a very DIY-friendly security system, is saying goodbye to its Ring Protect plans. In their place, the home security company is welcoming fall with a completely new set of subscription plans called Ring Home.

Ring Home will come...