Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but an Axios article said the sale price is "well below" $20 million.

Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013. Verizon bought Yahoo's operating business, including Tumblr, for $4.48 billion in June 2017.

"Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content," today's Journal article said. "He said he has long been a Tumblr user and sees the site as complementary to WordPress.com.

The goal of this plan is to improve the security of the WordPress ecosystem, and the internet as a whole, since WordPress installations account for more than 34% of all internet websites.

The plan is to slowly auto-update old WordPress sites, starting with v3.7, to the current mimum supported version, which is the v4.7 release.

If only a few individual sites break, than those site will be rolled back to their previous versions and the owner will be notified via email.

Hackers working for the Russian government have been using printers, video decoders, and other so-called Internet-of-things devices as a beachhead to penetrate targeted computer networks, Microsoft officials warned on Monday.

Microsoft researchers discovered the attacks in April, when a voice-over-IP phone, an office printer, and a video decoder in multiple customer locations were communicating with servers belonging to “Strontium,” a Russian government hacking group better known as Fancy Bear or APT28.

I would go so far as to say that being subjected to constant reCAPTCHAs is actually an act of human torture and disregard for a person's human right of mental comfort.

To solve what was (at the time) an epidemic in and of itself of bots, reCRAPCHA was born. Google came to the rescue of all, as was arguably their responsibility because they were the ones taking it up the rear the hardest from such bots.

How long it takes to now solve these things has increased due to completely deliberate and specific choices that Google has made in reCAPTCHA v3.

I’m sure a lot of people reading this has, at some point in their careers, felt that urge of innovating no matter what. An uncontrollable desire of redesigning something that hasn’t been redesigned for too long. It has to be recreated. And it has to be innovative.

Answering the should question is a skill you only get after many, many years answering questions alike.

Most of the queue provided by Facebook contained content that couldn’t be fact-checked – such as statements of opinion and random links including a swathe of Mr Bean videos – pointing to the ongoing difficulty in monitoring the more than one billion pieces of content posted to the platform daily.

“Facebook’s algorithms are not yet at a stage where they can reliably identify information that is inaccurate,” says Will Moy, director of Full Fact.

This is a blow for the company as they, as well as other tech companies, have said that artificial intelligence should be used to help tackle the problem of fake news. But it doesn’t seem ready yet.

That's the conclusion we have come to after it was revealed that Google has been offering people a Fin (that's $5 to you) to use your features in the training for its forthcoming face unlock feature.

ZDNet reports that the company is sending out street teams to gather face data from public places, in exchange for a $5 gift card, valid at either Amazon or Starbucks.

Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia's national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency -- including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic.

Researchers identified 25 malicious servers, 18 of which were located in Russia, and running Tor version 0.2.2.37, the same one detailed in the leaked files.

YouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos.

YouTube uses algorithms to recommend more videos for you to watch. These video suggestions appear in the app, down the side of the website and also show up when you get to the end of a video.

"It's what's great about YouTube. It is what brings you from one small area and actually expands your horizon and does the opposite of taking you down the rabbit hole," he says.

Since the face-editing tool went viral in the last few days, some have raised concerns over its terms and conditions.

They argue that the company takes a cavalier approach to users' data - but FaceApp said in a statement most images were deleted from its servers within 48 hours of being uploaded.

Privacy advocate Pat Walshe pointed to lines in the FaceApp's privacy policy that suggested some user data may be tracked for the purposes of targeting ads.