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WPE Customer Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Matt & Automattic. GPT5 Takes Center Stage as OpenAI Simplifies Product Line. Google Tag Manager Used in New Credit Card Skimming Attack. And More!

Gratitude is the key to happiness. And when you share it with others, you help lift the whole world. Who knows whose life you might impact simply by being grateful?

Is AI Making Our Brains Rot? A New Microsoft Study Says, Maybe So. States Challenge Landmark Disability Rights Law in Federal Court. Big Win for WordPress Service Providers as WordPress Trademark Claims Fail. And More!

Alert: Big Google reCAPTCHA Change Coming By the End of the Year. Raising the Bar (or Lowering the Boom?) for Sponsors at WordPress Events. Updates on "The Recent Unpleasantness." And More!

AI Watch: Big Moves from Major Players. Equalize Digital Reveals the Top Accessibility Issues of 2024. And More!

WordPress Ecommerce Sites Face Stealthy Card Skimming Attack. FTC Mandates Security Overhaul at GoDaddy. Godaddy Donates $500K to the WP Community Collective. Updates from Post Status Members, and More!

Is WordPress Crashing or Are We Debugging It? New EU A11y Law Could Reshape Online Shopping. What's New from Post Status Members. And More!

Automattic Reduces Contributions to the WordPress Project. AccessiBe Gets Stung for Misleading Accessibility Promises. The U.S. TikTok Ban is About More than Just TikTok. Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review: What Does it Mean for Your Agency in 2025? And More!

The Call for Change is Getting Louder. Government Websites Face Accessibility Hurdles as New Standards Loom. Github Copilot is Now Free for All Users. And More!

WordPress Goes 503: Out for the Holidays. Open Letter from WordPress Contributors and Community Leaders Pleads for Reform. A11y News: Court Rules Online-Only Businesses are Not Places of Public Accommodation. And More!

WP Engine Wins Preliminary Injunction. US Supreme Court Is TikTok’s Last Hope in Legal Battle. Should You Disclose AI Usage to Your Clients? And More!

WP Engine and Automattic Submit Injunction Proposals. Mary Hubbard, New WordPress Executive Director, Promises "Fresh Start." ChatGPT's Search Isn't All We Hoped it Would Be (Yet). And More!

Federal Judge Signals Support for WP Engine in WordPress Dispute. Automattic Expands Content Tools with Harper Acquisition. Holiday downtime? Here's a Few Must-Watch Streaming Suggestion. And More!

PressConf Scheduled for April 2025. Massive Cleanup Event Removes Hundreds of Dangerous WordPress Plugins. Smashing App Brings AI Power to Content Discovery. And More!

How Agencies Can Deal with Uncertainty Created by "The Recent Unpleasantness" For the last 2 months, I've begun my monthly WordPress News Roundup on Solid Academy with a summary of "the recent unpleasantness" in WordPress, particularly from the perspective of…