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159 employees leave WordPress founder's company after extortion lawsuit

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said WP Engine attacks on him have been effective enough so that "a good chunk of [his] Automattic colleagues disagreed with [him and his] actions."

The feud between WP Engine and Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, recently came to a head when the web hosting service sued the latter, accusing him of "abuse of power, extortion and greed." He said they offered WP Engine the option to "pay a direct licensing fee, or make in-kind contributions to the open source project," but the company refused. The biggest news stories this morning: YouTube Shorts are getting longer, Tesla’s fifth Cybertruck recall is due to a rear-view camera glitch, Texas is suing TikTok for allegedly violating its new child privacy law.

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