Welcome to the January 2026 edition of WPBeginner Spotlight! This month, we’re looking at new tools to help you clean up your WordPress media library, fine-tune cookie consent banners, and preview design changes faster. We’re also covering fresh updates across forms, fundraising, and site management, including new features from WPForms, Charitable, WPCode, and Formidable Forms. Let’s dive in and take a look at what’s new in the WordPress ecosystem. ℹ️ WPBeginner Spotlight brings you a monthly roundup of the most important WordPress news, updates, and community happenings. 📅✨ Got something to share? Whether it’s a new product launch, a significant…
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Corsair tried something new with their latest Vanguard Pro 96 keyboard, and I can’t say that I’m a fan. The built-in screen feels useless and like a value-add that doesn’t add any extra value. The rest of the keyboard though? I love it, and I think you will too. 8/10 Brand Corsair Wireless No Backlight Yes, RGB Media Controls Yes, knob The Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 keyboard comes with hot-swappable hall effect magnetic switches pre-installed. Offering multiple cable routing options on its underside, this premium keyboard is sure to take any setup to the next level. It also has a…
Ravie LakshmananJan 30, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Economic Espionage A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of the company’s confidential documents to build a startup in China has been convicted in the U.S., the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), 38, was convicted by a federal jury on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for taking over 2,000 documents containing the tech giant’s trade secrets related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). “Silicon Valley is at the forefront of…
Many search teams are seeing better rankings, more visibility, increased traffic, and more leads. Yet feedback on pipeline, revenue, and sales outcomes isn’t showing the same positive results. When SEO KPIs are green and graphs are up and to the right, business outcomes don’t always reflect the same success. Why strong search performance doesn’t translate to business outcomes Search performance can look healthy on the surface while breaking down in places search teams don’t own or fully see. It’s tempting to turn immediately to attribution models, data quality, or KPI definitions. Ultimately, the issue is often how performance breaks down…
Amazon doesn’t exactly advertise the privacy controls buried in Fire TV’s settings menus. After months of being greeted by promotional video clips every time I powered on my TCL 75-Inch S5 4K Fire TVs, I finally sat down and dug through every submenu I could find. The tools to reclaim your home screen have been there all along—they’re just not obvious. I’d already customized other aspects of my Fire TV setup across both basement TVs, one in the main living area, and another in my home gym. But the constant advertising assault deserved its own focused session. Ten minutes later,…
A federal jury in California convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets tied to AI technology. Ding faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for each count of theft of trade secrets and up to 15 years for each count of economic espionage. What happened? According to court records, Ding accessed and removed more than 2,000 pages of confidential information from Google systems between May 2022 and April 2023 while employed as a software engineer. Prosecutors said the material…
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A new Android malware campaign is using the Hugging Face platform as a repository for thousands of variations of an APK payload that collects credentials for popular financial and payment services. Hugging Face is a popular platform that hosts and distributes artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) models, datasets, and applications. It is considered a trusted platform unlikely to trigger security warnings, but bad actors have abused it in the past to host malicious AI models. The recent campaign discovered by researchers at Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender leverages the platform to distribute Android malware. The attack…
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Alongside the Turbo 5 Max, which went official in China yesterday, Redmi also unveiled the base Turbo 5 with a smaller battery and the Dimensity 8500-Ultra SoC. It’s the first phone in the world to feature the MediaTek Dimensity 8500-Ultra chipset. The Turbo 5 comes with LPDDR5 Ultra RAM, UFS 4.1 storage, and the same vapor chamber cooling setup as the larger Max model. The Redmi Turbo 5 features a slightly smaller 6.59-inch AMOLED display compared to the Max variant. The display offers a 120Hz refresh rate, 3,500 nits peak brightness, and a Full-HD+ resolution. It’s also a 12-bit panel…