Kinsta Stops Charging Customers for Useless Bot and AI Traffic Bandwidth

Look, if you’re running any kind of public-facing website today, you know the dirty little secret of your traffic logs: bots are winning. Not the good kind, either. We’re talking about the relentless scrapers, the spam-happy hackers, and the general automated riff-raff that sucks up your resources without ever clicking an ad or buying a product.

And for far too long, web hosts have been quietly charging you for the privilege of serving these digital nuisances. It’s like paying for a burglar to use your electricity while they steal your stuff.

Well, the managed WordPress folks at Kinsta seem to have finally had enough. They just announced a pretty sensible, almost revolutionary, change to their billing structure: they will no longer charge customers for the bandwidth eaten up by unwanted bot and scraper traffic.Read more

Adobe Express Just Got an AI Assistant That’ll Actually Do Your Design Work

Adobe is betting hard on AI, and the company’s latest move with Adobe Express might actually be one of the more useful implementations of the technology I’ve seen lately. They’ve rolled out an AI Assistant in beta that literally lets you boss around your designs with natural language prompts. Yes, you read that right—you can now tell your design software what to do like you’re texting a very talented intern.

This isn’t some gimmick feature buried in a submenu somewhere. Adobe Express’s AI Assistant is a conversational interface that sits right there in your workflow, and it’s designed to handle the kind of editing tasks that would normally require you to click through menus, adjust sliders, and generally remember where Adobe hid that one feature you need. Instead, you just… ask. Want to change the color scheme? Ask. Need to resize something? Ask. Want to add elements or rearrange your layout? You guessed it—ask.

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Microsoft Plans to Turn Every Windows 11 Device into an AI-Powered Voice Assistant

Microsoft is set to introduce a new feature that allows users to operate their computers and laptops through voice commands. To make this possible, the company plans to make every Windows 11 device powered by artificial intelligence (AI). These AI PCs will be operated through Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, enabling users to control their computers and perform various tasks simply by speaking.

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Chief Consumer Marketing Officer, said, “We’re on the brink of a major transformation where artificial intelligence will go beyond being just a chatbot — it will become part of every daily computing experience. Our goal is to rebuild the operating system so that computers and laptops truly become AI PCs.”Read more

How to Create a Website with AI

Let’s be real , most people don’t actually want to learn how to code. They just want a website that looks good, works on phones, and doesn’t break when they upload a picture that’s 10MB too big. That’s where AI tools step in. Forget hours of Googling CSS tutorials; you can now spin up a fully functioning website faster than it takes to decide on a domain name.

Here’s how to actually do it – no buzzwords, no fluff.

Step 1: Start with the Right Builder

A bunch of site builders are slapping “AI” on everything right now. Ignore the hype and focus on what matters: ease of use and decent design.Read more