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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic have asked a court to dismiss WP Engine’s lawsuit accusing them of libel and extortion. In a filing on Wednesday, Mullenweg argues that WP Engine is conjuring claims “out of legal thin air,” while alleging it continues to use the WordPress trademark “in unauthorized ways.” Earlier this month, the third-party WordPress hosting service WP Engine filed a lawsuit against Automattic and Mullenweg after the executive embarked on a “scorched earth nuclear” campaign against it. In addition to accusing WP Engine of trademark infringement, Mullenweg claimed the service doesn’t contribute enough to the open-source WordPress.org project, which Mullenweg also controls. WordPress.org also... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge ChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today (along with SearchGPT waitlist users), with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks. Rather than launching as a separate product, web search will be integrated into ChatGPT’s existing interface. The feature determines when to tap into web results based on queries, though users can also manually trigger web searches. ChatGPT’s web search integration finally closes a key competitive gap with rivals like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, which have long offered real-time internet access in their AI conversations. This launch comes as AI-powered search heats up... Continue reading…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apex Legends is one of the only battle royale games that lets you play on a Steam Deck gaming handheld — Fortnite, Valorant and PUBG and more never supported it in the first place, citing concerns about anti-cheat. But today, Electronic Arts and Respawn are taking the game away for that very same reason. “In our efforts to combat cheating in Apex, we’ve identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats. As a result, we’ve decided to block Linux OS access to the game,” writes EA, in a blog post explaining the decision. Apex Legends did have anti-cheat software that did run on the Steam Deck — specifically, the game uses Epic Games’ Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC), which has been compatible with the Linux gaming... Continue reading…

Despite a Democrat-fueled narrative that serious problems exist between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump, the former UN ambassador encouraged Pennsylvania voters to support the Republican presidential candidate. Haley, Trump's top primary challenger, campaigned Wednesday with...

The crowd-sourced fact-checking feature of Elon Musk's X, Community Notes, is "failing to counter false" claims about the U.S. election, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said in a report on Wednesday. Out of the 283 misleading posts that CCDH has analyzed, 209...

President Joe Biden's administration brokered a deal with China to secure the release of David Lin, a U.S. citizen and pastor who spent almost 20 years in custody until his release last month, Politico reported.Lin, 68, was released in mid-September after first being...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that he was surprised by China's "silence" on North Korean troops getting involved in the war in Ukraine on the Russian side....

Joe Rogan said on his podcast Wednesday that he warned comedian Tony Hinchcliffe to not tell his joke about Puerto Rico at former President Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden."I tell all comedians, don't ever do comedy at something that's not a comedy event,"...