Youngberg Resigns: Windham superintendent leaving Dec. 11

TechCrunch Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months' severance Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg's offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the company floated a new offer late on October 16 of a nine-month severance package to anybody who quit immediately. In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Mullenweg posted that people who accepted the offer would lose access not only to Automattic but also to WordPress.org. Apart from being Automattic CEO, Mullenweg also owns and controls WordPress.org's open source site.

Yahoo Sports Tony Bennett, longtime Virginia men's basketball head coach, unexpectedly retires before start of the season Bennett, who has been the Cavaliers' coach since 2009, led the team to an NCAA Championship in 2019 a year after Virginia lost in the first round as a No. 1 seed.

Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products Microsoft has notified customers that it's missing more than two weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network defenders without critical data for detecting possible intrusions. According to a notification sent to affected customers, Microsoft said that "a bug in one of Microsoft's internal monitoring agents resulted in a malfunction in some of the agents when uploading log data to our internal logging platform" between September 2 and September 19. The notification said that the logging outage was not caused by a security incident, and "only affected the collection of log events."

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Announcing the final group of top VCs to judge the Startup Battlefield 200 Final at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is just a week away. Two hundred companies have been hand-selected by the TechCrunch editorial staff to grace the expo hall, 20 of which will launch their company for the first time live on our stage. Nail-biting pitches live on the Disrupt Stage, make or break hardware and software demos.

Apple says support for redeeming rewards with more partners is coming to Apple Pay On Thursday, Apple celebrated 10 years with Apple Pay and announced how the service will evolve in the future, including features like redeeming rewards and expanding installment loan options. In addition to Apple Pay's newly added support for loan options from Affirm in the U.S., and Monzo Flex in the U.K., the iPhone maker shared that starting today, support for Klarna will go live in the two countries including both at checkout online and in-app with Apple Pay. Further down the road, the company says it will expand access to installment loan options to include those from eligible credit or debit cards, including those from Citi and Synchrony in the U.S. and other participating issuers with Fiserv.