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Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board

Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board

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After a tumultuous week, which saw WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ousted from his position as CEO of Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company, by way of a board vote, the company has now issued a statement confirming that Mullenweg has returned to his position. “Matt Mullenweg is the chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board and if you search online you can see many top executives and Automatticians supporting him as well,” a company spokesperson shared with TechCrunch via email just after 5 PM ET on Saturday evening. (The mention of online support appears to refer to supportive posts on X that Mullenweg has been reposting from his X account.) Automattic’s board had voted earlier this week to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence for unknown reasons. The move seemingly came as a surprise to Mullenweg, who posted on Automattic’s Slack, accusing the board members of “conspiring” against him. Automattic confirmed Mullenweg’s removal to TechCrunch on Wednesday, saying that Mullenweg was “currently on leave” and that Automattic’s Chief Financial Officer, Mark …

Cannibalism returned to the menu multiple times in Neolithic Europe

Cannibalism returned to the menu multiple times in Neolithic Europe

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Cannibalism is understandably frowned upon today,but humans haven’t always been so adverse to the idea of eating our own. Across Europe, multiple archaeological sites indicate at least some Neolithic communities routinely consumed unlucky victims as far back as 5000 BCE. But inside three caves in present-day Spain, ancient skeletal remains vividly illustrate that prehistoric groups never adopted a “one-size-fits-all” approach to their cannibalism. As researchers explained in a study recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, a range of methods and motivations for cannibalism existed among Neolithic peoples prior to the Bronze Age. “For decades, prehistoric cannibalism has tended to be interpreted as a single type of behavior,” Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, a study co-author and archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida, …

Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell says cancer has returned after unsuccessful transplant

Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell says cancer has returned after unsuccessful transplant

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Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Vivian Campbell, the guitarist for Def Leppard, has revealed that he is undergoing treatment for cancer again following an unsuccessful donor transplant. The rock musician, 63, first revealed in 2013 that he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which then returned in 2015 before more treatment. During an interview with El Salvadorian radio station YSKL, Campbell said: ““There’s only been one time that I felt it was gonna kill me. In the winter of 2023, I got really scared about what was happening and the pace at which it was happening. “And I realised at that point that I had to do a donor transplant. It was my only hope to survive.” Vivian Campbell at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025 (Getty Images) Campbell revealed that he got a stem cell transplant in January 2025, but it “didn’t stick”. “So the cancer …

A Picasso Etching Stolen 8 Years Ago Was Returned to Milwuakee Police

A Picasso Etching Stolen 8 Years Ago Was Returned to Milwuakee Police

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A Pablo Picasso etching stolen from Milwuakee’s DeLind Art Appraisals in 2018 was handed over to the city’s plice department on Thursday, according to a press release. The etching and aquatint printed in ink on paper, titled Torero, is the ninth in an edition of 30. When it was stolen in 2018, Bill DeLind told news organizations that it was worth between $35,000 and $50,000. “It was like, ‘Oh my God,” DeLind told local news station 12 News on Thursday. “I never thought I’d see this again. And there it was.” In 2018, DeLind described the work as having “walked off the wall,” telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he did not see anyone in the business on the day the work disappeared, and that the office did not have security cameras. At one point, police offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the work’s whereabouts, but that offer expired in 2019. Police brought in DeLind to authenticate the work, which still had a sticker from his shop on it. “It was in a …

Ceuta: Most migrants have returned to Morocco, 57 died crossing the border

Ceuta: Most migrants have returned to Morocco, 57 died crossing the border

Published by Sam Flores

Spanish officials said more than 48,000 migrants had returned, after around 50,000 people crossed the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta by sea. Meanwhile, France and Italy bolstered border controls on Saturday, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announcing the suspension of Schengen free movement between Spain and Italy. According to Judith Sunderland, Senior Associate Director at Human Rights Watch, the return of many of those who reached Ceuta was chaotic, and the exact figures remain unclear. She says the borders are heavily fortified, making them extremely difficult and dangerous to cross, with 57 people reported to have died during the crisis. And while Ceuta is part of Spain and the Schengen free movement area, special rules apply to the enclave, making it difficult for migrants to travel onwards from there. Keywords for this article Source link

Teen who licked iJooz straw and returned it to vending machine gets S0 fine

Teen who licked iJooz straw and returned it to vending machine gets S$600 fine

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SINGAPORE: A teenager who posted a video of himself licking a straw and returning it to an iJooz vending machine was fined S$600 (US$465) for public nuisance on Thursday (Jul 30). The clip had gone viral after someone in his Instagram circle recorded it and forwarded the footage to a media outlet, the defence said. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, a 19-year-old French national, pleaded guilty to one count of public nuisance, with a second charge of mischief taken into consideration. On Mar 12 this year, Maximilien attended a boxing session at Goldhill Centre. After this, he went to an iJooz vending machine there and bought a drink. He took a straw from the machine, licked about half of it and placed the contaminated straw back on the straw dispenser, filming the process. He then collected the drink, took the contaminated straw and left. Maximilien later edited the footage and uploaded it to Instagram. The act caused iJooz to replace all 500 straws in the dispenser, worth S$5 in total, the charge states. BOTH SIDES CALL …

Nazi-Looted Painting Found Decades Ago to Be Returned to Jewish Dealer’s Heirs

Nazi-Looted Painting Found Decades Ago to Be Returned to Jewish Dealer’s Heirs

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A painting that once belonged to the prominent Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has been successfully identified and will be returned to his heirs. The discovery of the painting, depicting the interior of Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and likely by Dutch Golden Age painter Hendrick van der Burgh, has an unusual history, according to De Telegraaf, which first reported the news. The paper’s crime reporter John van den Heuvel worked with art detective Arthur Brand to identify the painting and its history. Related Articles Amsterdam resident Robert van der Hoek saw the painting decades ago on the side of the street while driving by, and he pulled over to rescue it from its likely fate. “It was lying among a pile of rubbish, clearly intended to be removed by the city cleaning service,” he told De Telegraaf. “I took it with me because I thought it was a shame, and I put it in the cellar. It stood there for years.” Van der Hoek reached out to De Telegraaf after reading the paper’s …

What Greg James spilled about Taylor Swift’s wedding as he returned to his BBC Radio 1 breakfast show

What Greg James spilled about Taylor Swift’s wedding as he returned to his BBC Radio 1 breakfast show

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Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Greg James couldn’t help but offer a few insider details after attending Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding last weekend, revealing the extent of the secrecy and what ceremony keepsakes he pinched. The BBC Radio 1 presenter was stunned to learn he was invited to what’s been dubbed the “wedding of the decade” at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where the Grammy-winning pop star and her “guy on the Chiefs” threw a huge party for 1,000 guests. Swift had previously said James was invited when appearing on his radio show last year, but the presenter appeared to assume she was joking. “I still can’t quite believe that it happened,” James said as he returned to his Radio 1 breakfast show on Wednesday (8 July). “It does feel like an amazingly strange but exciting dream. It was unbelievably fun. The main headline …

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Says He Returned State Decoration to Polish President

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Says He Returned State Decoration to Polish President

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By Dan Peleschuk and Anna Koper KYIV/WARSAW, June 20 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on ⁠Saturday ⁠he had returned a state decoration a day after ⁠Poland’s president said he had stripped him of the award in connection with a dispute over events in World War ​Two. Three former Ukrainian presidents said they were also returning their state awards to Poland, as did other senior officials. Polish President Karol Nawrocki said on Friday he had revoked the Order ‌of the White Eagle awarded to Zelenskiy in ‌2023 after the Ukrainian president renamed a military unit in honour of World War Two-era Ukrainian insurgents accused of massacring Poles. The row over the role of the Ukrainian Insurgent ⁠Army (UPA) threatens to deepen ⁠a diplomatic rift between the close strategic partners as Kyiv rallies allies to push Russia to end ​its more than four-year-old war on Ukraine. “We believed that the Order of the White Eagle, awarded in 2023, was meant for the Ukrainian People and our army. That is what was said at the time,” …

Rare dinosaur fossils finally returned to Mongolia 20 years after theft

Rare dinosaur fossils finally returned to Mongolia 20 years after theft

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than paleontologists. Black market smugglers routinely rob both the East Asian country of its prehistoric heritage and the global scientific community of invaluable knowledge. Thanks to recent international recovery efforts, some of those stolen treasures have finally returned home nearly 20 years after their initial disappearance. According to officials at Mongolia’s new National Museum of Natural History, 29 sets of dinosaur fossils are now back in the capital of Ulaanbaatar—including a half-complete, extremely rare relative of Tyrannosaurus rex. During a recent conference, Ulaanbaatar police spokesperson D. Munkhkhuyag said that smugglers absconded with the remains in 2006, “with the aim of making a profit.” It wasn’t …