Data from the National Survey of Secondary Schools shows many principals expressing concern about plans to replace NCEA. Findings from the survey, run by our NZCER team, show 70 percent of principals ...

In terms of making what developer hours they do have count for more, this seems like it makes sense. I'd be very surprised if they pull off not changing the user experience, though. If it was going to ...

Once-great social media and blogging platform Tumblr has gone through a number of big changes in recent years, and another one is right around the corner. Parent company Automattic says it is ...

Tumblr is migrating half a billion blogs to a new backend. Tumblr is migrating half a billion blogs to a new backend. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social ...

Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has focused on improving Tumblr’s platform and ...

Facepalm: Generative AI gobbles massive amounts of data, and companies always need fresh content to develop their LLMs and other machine learning models. WordPress owner Automattic is seemingly ready ...

Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. 404 Media reports that the platforms' parent company, Automattic, ...

Like so many millennials, my teenage years on the multimedia microblogging platform, Tumblr, introduced me to feminist politics, which inspired my burgeoning interest in gender and feminism at ...

Off the top of my head, I couldn’t remember exactly why my fellow Tumblr users were predicting the platform’s death in November 2018. The adult-content ban, a monumental event in the site’s history ...

Reversing a 2018 ban, the company said that nudity and “mature subject matter” would be allowed. But “visual depictions of sexually explicit acts” remain off limits. By Claire Fahy See more of our ...

Tumblr has recently been vocal about going all-in on Gen Z, but wooing a fresh new set of users to a 15-year-old platform has its hiccups. Endemic Tumblr creators have reported recent drops in ...

In 2013, when Jennifer Forward-Hayter was fourteen, she would log onto the social network Tumblr from the desktop computer in her family’s working farmhouse in Dorset, England. The machine sat on a ...