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Matt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted
Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as chief executive of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr and Beeper, just two days after being placed on paid leave. The saga began when Mullenweg told staff that chief financial officer Mark Davies had “conspired” with the board to sideline him, with the board reportedly voting to…
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Book reveals Ground Zero debris was dispersed across all fifty states
A new book, *Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the WTC* by Samuel Holleran and Max Holleran, traces what became of the nearly two million tons of debris cleared from Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, revealing that fragments were dispersed to all 50 US states and beyond. Published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of…
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Flavor Flav Shares Personal 9/11 Memory & Honors ‘Heroes Who Ran Toward Danger’ on 25th Anniversary
Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav marked the 25th anniversary of the 11 September attacks by sharing personal memories and taking part in charitable work in New York, the city where he grew up. On social media, he recalled watching the Twin Towers from his window before they fell, reflecting on shared American identity and paying…
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Jay Baruchel & Michael Dowse Talk Falling In Love With ‘The Stunt Driver’ Ken Carter, Upcoming Sitcom Project, Baruchel’s WWII Fighter Pilot Passion Project
Ahead of its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, director Michael Dowse and star Jay Baruchel spoke to Deadline about The Stunt Driver, a Canadian sports comedy Dowse spent 12 years trying to get made. The film tells the true story of Ken Carter, a Canadian stuntman who set out to jump a rocket car a…
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Young man interning for Disney is killed in freak lightning strike
A 20-year-old Disney College Program intern, Matthew Jenkins, was killed by a lightning strike while on a walking trail behind a hotel in Celebration, Florida, on Tuesday evening. Jenkins had moved from Shelby Township, Michigan, only days earlier to begin the paid internship as a Disney World cast member, making his death particularly poignant given…
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GDP figures, RunPilot funding boost and Cooney-Cross returns to Emirates
This morning’s ONS growth data will show if the UK economy held up through the summer heatwave, while Sheffield AI start-up RunPilot lands £140k funding and Arsenal’s Kyra Cooney-Cross makes an emotional return against Crystal Palace.
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Self-driving cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges
A thinktank, the Centre for British Progress, has urged the UK government to introduce taxes on self-driving cars now, warning that widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could threaten hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs and worsen road congestion. The call comes just weeks after the first robotaxis began operating on London’s streets, with…
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We unfolded the iPhone Duo
The Verge’s Vergecast podcast dissects Apple’s latest product launch event, marking new CEO John Ternus’s first appearance in the role and the debut of the company’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo. Hosts and colleagues assess the new iPhone 18 Pro’s variable aperture camera, question whether Apple’s foldable borrows the best elements of existing Android…
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Court of Appeal increases jail term for driver in boyfriend’s death
A driver who filmed her teenage boyfriend hanging out of a car window moments before crashing and killing him has had her jail term increased from three to four and a half years by the Court of Appeal. Mia Howarth, 21, had been jailed at York Crown Court after admitting causing death by dangerous driving,…
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Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm
A Coinbase software engineer named Alex Wormuth has built “Stonkfly”, a simulated fruit fly brain hooked up to $100 and told to trade bitcoin, with the insect’s neural activity determining buy and sell decisions. It follows a March project by researchers at Eon Systems, who connected a simulated fly brain to a virtual body in…