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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge WordPress.org has introduced a fork of a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today. This “minimal” update of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is now called “Secure Custom Fields.”
It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to in the post. He writes that he’s “invoking

This year's harsh string of layoffs continues with Boeing being the latest company to announce cuts to its workforce.The airplane manufacturing company will lay off 10 percent of its workforce — roughly 17,000 jobs. Job cuts will include executives, middle management, and employees. SEE ALSO:NASA thinks it found a moon light-years away spewing gas
The decision was announced to employees in a message from President and CEO Kelly Ortberg who took over just two months ago. He wrote that in or

The Deebot X2 Omni. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Someone gained access to Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni robotic vacuums across several US cities earlier this year and used them to chase pets and yell racist slurs at their owners, reported ABC News in Australia this week.The outlet spoke with multiple Deebot X2 owners who say their Deebot X2s had been hacked in May, including Minnesota lawyer Daniel Swenson, who said he was watching TV with his family when a noise “like a broken-

Do the voices in the "in da clerb, we all fam" soundbite circulating on TikTok sound vaguely familiar? Do they perhaps bring you back to a time of bandage dresses and mustache prints before weed was legal in New York City? That's because they are the voices of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on their hit show Broad City. SEE ALSO:Charli XCX's 'Brat and it's completely different but also still brat' is here and hype lives on
Broad City's last episode may have aired in 2019, but if TikTok is any in

Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it! But Threads users who replied to Meta’s idea, posted along with three AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis Meta last night, seem to disagree.
Here’s Meta’s post:
The images show the Northern Lights hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge, over a city skyline, and over a ferris wheel. It’s clearly meant to latch onto a trending mom

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections &mdas

Stepping up to the 10th-gen iPad nets you a modern design, a faster processor, and — yes — support for USB-C. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge There have been plenty of rumors swirling regarding a new iPad Mini for more than a year now, but most indicators point toward a processor bump and little else. We haven’t heard much about a new entry-level iPad, though, which makes it a great time to pick up either the ninth- or 10th-gen model — both of which are still on sale f

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The Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners football teams are scheduled to meet at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, Oct. 12. The game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How

Scientists have never actually seen a moon orbiting a planet other than the ones in this solar system. An exomoon, a companion to an exoplanet, likely would be too tiny and far away for telescopes to resolve. But a new NASA study may have found a clue that one is orbiting a planet some 635 light-years from Earth. The inference comes from a vast sodium cloud spotted in space. Whatever is causing it produces about 220,000 pounds of sodium per second. The research suggests a rocky moon ci

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is in for a wild ride.The launch of this mission to explore the ocean world Europa — a Jupiter moon that harbors an ocean perhaps twice the volume of all Earth's seas — was interrupted by the imposing Hurricane Milton, but its 1.8-billion-mile journey is imminent. The craft will make nearly 50 close flybys of Europa's cracked, icy shell, using a number of high-resolution cameras, a ground-penetrating radar, and even a device that will literally sample

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Mars' irradiated surface is a godforsaken place.And yet there may be shallow pools of water near the Martian surface, a place 1,000 times drier than the driest desert on Earth. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — a satellite that's been orbiting Mars for nearly two decades — spotted white material lining dry gullies on Mars. The space agency, which recently released the image below, suspects it's dusty water ice that could heat up and form pools, similar to processes on our planet."

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Blitz is what you get when you combine Oscar–winning writer/director Steve McQueen (Shame, 12 Years A Slave), the works of Charles Dickens, and the third act of Atonement. And while each of these parts may sound promising by themselves, the final combination proves frustratingly uneven.SEE ALSO:42 movies you'll want to see this fall
There's no doubt that McQueen's World War II epic is among the most well-crafted films of the year, boasting some genuinely pulse-pounding sequences and lavish

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for October 12's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.SEE ALSO:Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO:NYT Connections today: Hints and ans

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for October 12's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself,

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The Stanford Cardinals and Notre Dame Fighting Irish football teams are scheduled to meet at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 12. The game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch college football without cable
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The South Carolina vs. Alabama football teams are scheduled to meet at the Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Saturday, Oct. 12. The game is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to w

TL;DR: Live stream Poland vs. Portugal in the UEFA Nations League for free on L'Equipe. Access this free streaming site from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.The UEFA Nations League continues with a strong matchup from League A Group 1, as Poland host Portugal. With soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo onside, Portugal have won both games in the competition so far and look like favorites again. But don't count out Poland just yet. They're the sort of squad that can cause bigger teams problems

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The Penn State Nittany Lions and USC Trojans football teams are scheduled to go head-to-head at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in LA, California, for a Big Ten Conference contest on Friday, Oct. 4. The game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch college football without cablePen

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The Clemson Tigers vs. Wake Forest Demon Deacons football teams are next to face off. This match takes place at the Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Saturday, Oct. 12. The game

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The California Golden Bears and Pittsburgh Panthers football teams are scheduled to meet at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday, Oct. 12. The game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT

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The Ole Miss Rebels and LSU Tigers football teams are scheduled to meet at Tiger Stadium in LA, California on Saturday, Oct. 12. The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch co

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The Ohio State Buckeyes and Oregon Ducks football teams are scheduled to meet at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, Oct. 12. The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET/ 4:30 p.m. PT.SEE ALSO:How to watch college football without cable
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The Kansas Wildcats and Colorado Buffaloes football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Folsom Field Stadium in Boulder Colorado. The match will take place on Saturday, Oct. 12, and is scheduled to start at 10:15 p.m.

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The Florida Gators and Tennesse Volunteers football teams will face off at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennesse on Sunday, Oct. 12. The game is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch col

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If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, w

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for

Image: AMD Somebody goofed — and now AMD’s unannounced Ryzen 9000X3D desktop processors have been partially revealed. But like Intel’s new Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, it doesn’t look like they’ll be a huge performance improvement on their predecessors. If so, that’s a shame given how poorly received AMD’s Ryzen 9000 was, to begin with.According to slides from an MSI presentation published by HardwareLuxx today (via VideoCardz), the new chips may have respec