Jon Henshaw

With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, Signal leadership is sounding the alarm for the industry to pull back until threats can be mitigated. At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in Hamburg, Germany, Signal President Meredith Whittaker and VP of Strategy and Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari gave a presentation titled AI Agent, AI Spy.

In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the fediverse. Eugen Roshko, creator of Mastodon I’ve been enamored with the idea of controlling my social presence ever since Diaspora launched in 2010.

WordPress admins will no longer be dependent on getting Core, plugin, and theme updates from the centrally controlled WordPress.org. On September 25, 2024, Matt Mullenweg blocked WP Engine from getting updates from WordPress.org. The unilateral action was shocking to many in the WordPress community because it exposed the centralized control of how all WordPress sites get updates.