Tumblr’s logo. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg would like you to please stop asking Tumblr to bring back porn because it isn’t going to happen. After widespread and inaccurate speculation that Tumblr would lift its ban on adult content, Mullenweg posted a long explanation yesterday of why Tumblr will never go…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Enlarge Lights went out as Hurricane Fiona devastated areas from the Caribbean to Canada, and Hurricane Ian has done the same. Hurricanes, along with other natural disasters like wildfires and winter storms, can leave people without access to electricity. However, new research out of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests that added solar capacity, paired…
Ard Su THE TOWN SLOGAN of Bluffdale, Utah, is “Life Connected.” That’s both innocuous and general—so innocuous and general that the two words are also, for instance, the slogan of a Colorado therapist and the title of a BBC tech column. However, in Bluffdale, under the shadow of the Wasatch mountain range, the words take…
Stack Commerce We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Apple has always created products that have captured people’s attention. From their Apple Watch Ultra, to the camera of the iPhone, Apple continues to make products year in and year out that fascinate and please the public….
A satellite image of Hurricane Ian making landfall on the southwest coast of Florida on Wednesday, September 28. NOAA/NASA All eyes are set on Florida as Hurricane Ian, a historic Category 4 storm, wrecks havoc on the state’s Gulf Coast. The storm officially made landfall at 3:05 p.m EST on Wednesday near barrier island Cayo…
In a bid for the TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels crowd, Adobe today announced updates to Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements — its lightweight photo and video editing software bundle — that focus on improving the audio track selection and adding artistic effects to videos. Photoshop Elements 2023 and Premiere Elements 2023 also add…
Martin Kõiva was at Pipedrive, leading the company’s customer support organization, when he says he came to the realization that the best way to prevent bad customer interactions is to analyze previous ones, give agents regular check-ins and not rely too strictly on customer feedback. But Kõiva was hampered in his efforts to implement these…
Detectify, a security platform that employs ethical hackers to conduct attacks designed to highlight vulnerabilities in corporate systems, today announced that it raised $10 million in follow-on funding led by Insight Partners. CEO Richard Carlsson says that the new cash, which brings Detectify’s total raised to $42 million, will be put toward product development and…
Software-as-a-service dev platform Airplane today closed a $32 million Series B funding round led by Thrive Capital with participation from Benchmark, bringing the startup’s total raised to $40.5 million. Ravi Parikh says that the new funds will be put toward growing Airplane’s 19-person team while expanding its product to new markets. Airplane was founded in…
The rise in software supply chain attacks, like the SolarWinds hack, prompted last year’s executive order from the Biden Administration requiring vendors to provide a software bill of materials (SBOM). SBOMs can help security teams understand if a newly disclosed vulnerability impacts them — in theory. But industry experts caution that they aren’t always comprehensive…