WordPress plugin suite hacked to push malware to thousands of sites

More than 30 WordPress plugins in the EssentialPlugin package have been compromised with malicious code that allows ...

Malicious WordPress Plugins with Backdoors Compromise Thousands of Websites

More than 30 WordPress plugins were shut down after a supply-chain backdoor compromised thousands of sites through the ...

OpenAI ratchets up Codex’s agentic capabilities to rival Claude Code

The ChatGPT maker is engaged in a fierce battle for AI coding supremacy with its rival Anthropic PBC, and is widely perceived ...
NPR

Code Switch

April 11, 2026 • Do you vote Republican or Democrat? And why does that answer reveal so much about the rest of who you are? We talk to political scientist Lilliana Mason about how party affiliation ...
CNET

Claude Can Now Run Tasks on Your Behalf With New 'Computer Use' Feature

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
NPR

Politics

April 16, 2026 • Ten Republicans voted alongside Democrats, in a rebuke to the Trump administration's immigration policies. Should it pass the Senate, the White House said President Trump would veto ...