The US Copyright Office previously ruled that art created using AI were not entitled to copyright. That ruling has been upheld by the US Appeals Court.

Congratulations to Anne-Mieke Bovelett whose project won this year’s hackathon at CloudFest. The winning project is a plugin named Visua11y that automatically converts complex visuals like info-graphics into accessible alternatives.

WordPress 6.8 is currently scheduled for release in about 3 weeks on April 15th. Despite it being a “maintenance” release, there are some nice enhancements. This overview of 6.8 has summaries of the new features.

The Beaver Builder team launched version 2.9. It has a number of features, including the ability to use Beaver Builder modules in the block editor. There is also a new version of Beaver Themer which includes a Loop Module.

Congratulations to the Kadence Blocks team for hitting the 500,000+ milestone.

Here is a preview video of a very cool looking tool coming to WordPress. It is called RightPlace and it is being created by Ryan Lee and team. RightPlace is a new innovative desktop IDE for WordPress.

Meta Box has a new dashboard start page in the WordPress admin. It now has buttons to quickly jump to commonly used features, a help doc search, and tutorials for common functionality.

Speculative loading of links is coming in WordPress 6.8. This was first a feature plugin and now is being integrated into core.

WooCommerce 9.7 released with a number of performance improvements and other enhancements.