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WordPress publishing software can now run entirely in a web browser, the organization that develops open source publishing software announced Wednesday. Through a new service called my.WordPress.net, WordPress software allows users to set up a site and start publishing without signing up, setting up a hosting plan, or registering a domain. Instead, the new solution leverages the same technology that powers WordPress Demo and makes it available as a permanent self-publishing platform. There are major caveats when running WordPress this way. Sites set to my.WordPress.net are private by default and cannot be accessed from the public internet. A blog post…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 9, 2026 in New York City, USA. Brendan McDiarmid | Reuters What you need to know todayOil prices continued to soar on Tuesday, closing more than 11% lower as traders said countries would use emergency oil reserves to ease the chaos caused by wars in the Middle East. The plunge came despite aggressive rhetoric from US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about attacks on Iran, with Hegseth saying Tuesday “will be the day of the most intense attacks.” U.S. crude oil and…
Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei suffered a broken leg and other minor injuries on the first day of a shelling campaign by the United States and Israel, a person familiar with the situation told CNN. In addition to the leg injury, Khamenei, 56, suffered bruises around his left eye and minor lacerations on his face, officials said. Israeli sources previously told CNN that Khamenei was wounded in an assassination attempt last week and that rumors of his injury have been swirling for several days. Alireza Salarian, Iran’s ambassador to Cyprus, told the Guardian on Wednesday that Khamenei was wounded…
Vibe-coding sensation Replit has reached a new funding milestone. The company announced Wednesday that it has raised $400 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $9 billion, led by previous investor Georgian Partners. Other participating investors include G Squared, Prysm Capital, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Accenture Ventures, Okta Ventures, and Databricks Ventures. Founder and CEO Amjad Massad also said in a post on X that backers include angel investors Shaquille O’Neal and Jared Leto. This follows the $3 billion valuation the company achieved when it raised $250 million in September. At the time, Replit said…
US President Donald Trump takes questions during a press conference at the Trump National Doral Miami in Miami, Florida, USA on March 9, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersPresident Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will build its first oil refinery in 50 years with an investment from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani. Reliance Industries.”This is a historic $300 billion deal, the largest in American history,” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social.He thanked Reliance Industries, India’s largest privately held energy company, “for this significant investment.” Reliance owns the world’s largest refinery in Jamnagar, India, and has a…
Meta’s 5 GW Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, January 9, 2026.Courtesy of MetaMeta on Wednesday announced four custom in-house chips tailored for artificial intelligence-related tasks as part of the company’s massive data center expansion plans.This specialized silicon is part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) family of chips, first made available to the public in 2023, with a second-generation version announced in 2024. Yee Jiun Song, Meta’s vice president of engineering, told CNBC that it will be manufactured by designing a custom chip. taiwan semiconductorthe social media giant can drive up the price per…
A tanker sails through the Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz during the conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran, March 11, 2026, in the United Arab Emirates. Viewed from northern Ras Al Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam Territory.Stringer | Reutersmajor insurance company Chub The company will be the lead underwriter of a U.S. government-led program to provide insurance to ships dangerously navigating the Strait of Hormuz.The agency said Chubb will work with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation as part of a $20 billion plan to help restart oil tankers and other commercial traffic amid risks…
london — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was warned that Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein posed a “general reputational risk” before he was appointed British ambassador to the United States, according to a trove of files released by the British government on Wednesday. In a due diligence report provided to Starmer by his review team in December 2024, officials listed what was publicly known about the veteran Labor politician’s relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Epstein. “After Mr Epstein was first found guilty of soliciting underage girls in 2008, their relationship continued from 2009 to 2011, beginning…
Is the perfect Arsenal ready to answer the critics?Leverkusen vs. Arsenal – Wednesday, 5:45 p.m. There is no doubt that Mikel Arteta is aware of the expectations surrounding Arsenal. Recent performances suggest the same goes for his players. The reality of still being through all four competitions so far in the season has had an impact, not only in terms of physical fatigue but also in terms of mental struggle. This group is desperate to get results, which makes certain games tense and wild, where the football is more important than the result. Saturday’s 2-1 win over League One side…
The US Treasury building in Washington.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThe U.S. budget deficit exceeded $1 trillion in the fiscal year that ended in February, Treasury data showed on Wednesday, but it was significantly lower than the same period a year earlier.Expenses exceeded revenues by $308 billion in February, roughly matching the deficit recorded in the same month last year.The fiscal year-to-date budget deficit totaled $1.004 trillion, about 12% less than the comparable period in 2025, as government revenues grew faster than spending.What helped close this gap was a sharp increase in customs duty collections. Tariffs totaled $151 billion…