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The EU fined Google €2.95 billion for abusing its dominant position in advertising tech by favoring its AdX exchange since 2014. This is Google's fourth major EU antitrust penalty, totaling nearly €10 billion over ten years. Google has 60 days to suggest compliance or risk divestment. It plans to appeal.
Czech cybersecurity agency NUKIB warned of increasing risks from Chinese-linked technologies in vital sectors such as energy, healthcare, transport, and government, citing APT31's attacks on Czech ministries. The agency pointed out risks from Chinese devices like IP cameras, PV inverters, smart meters, phones, cars, and AI models that can send data to or be controlled remotely from China. NUKIB stressed that Chinese laws give authorities broad powers to access data and force private companies to cooperate in state-led spying, urging Czech organizations to implement proper protections against these cyber threats.
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Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana announced the company will "challenge, limit, or reject" law enforcement requests for robotaxi camera footage that lack valid legal processes like warrants, as each vehicle's 29 cameras create privacy concerns about potential surveillance misuse.
Tire manufacturing giant Bridgestone confirmed a cyberattack disrupted operations at multiple North American facilities, including plants in South Carolina and Quebec.
Australian airline Qantas cut executive bonuses by 15% after a July cyberattack linked to Scattered Spider compromised the data of 5.7 million customers through a third-party call center platform.
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AI tools promise faster answers and smarter insights. But without real data and context, they're just confident guessing, and in marketing, guessing doesn't cut it.
Unlike traditional marketers who create individual assets, content engineers build AI-powered systems that scale content across channels. They embed brand voice into processes, orchestrate cross-platform ecosystems, design feedback loops that optimize performance, and scale personalization while keeping strategy intact. As martech moves from human-centric tools to agent-based systems, companies that adopt content engineering will gain an edge.
Trump's new “no tax on tips” policy opens an unexpected win for influencers and digital creators. Podcasters, streamers, and other online creators can now deduct up to $25K in tips, making platforms with tip-based revenue models more attractive. This new policy strengthens the financial case for mid-tier creators to scale tipping features and experiment with direct audience monetization.
The old limit of 6 ads per ad set on Meta is no longer as relevant. With the rollout of the Andromeda system and new creative AI tools, Meta now promotes creative diversification across formats, styles, and messaging angles. Advertisers are seeing success with ad sets containing up to 50 ads, thanks to Meta's ability to handle variation more intelligently. Meta's new algorithmic approach appears less sensitive to budget thresholds, allowing broad testing without the old distribution penalties.
Peach & Lily's latest launch skipped the usual influencer playbooks and opted for a blind test approach. The brand sent its new product in unbranded bottles to 14 experts across dermatology, esthetics, and cosmetic chemistry. These influencers received minimal ingredient details and were invited to share authentic first impressions on TikTok and Instagram before any brand name was disclosed. The content had no trending audio or effects and leaned fully into face-to-camera education. The campaign generated 5X the engagement of previous efforts and racked up over 1M impressions within two hours of the reveal at a New York City launch event.
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A list of online courses that teach storytelling techniques, editing tips, and research frameworks.
The Reddit Pixel lets brands track behavior and run retargeting campaigns that re-engage high-intent visitors at a fraction of cold campaign costs. Retargeting works on Reddit because 42% of users say it influences purchase decisions more than any other channel. With CPCs of $0.50-3 versus LinkedIn's $7-12, Reddit offers a cost-effective way to nurture leads and drive conversions over longer sales cycles.
OpenAI is building a Jobs Platform to match AI-trained workers with companies, including small businesses and local governments, and launching OpenAI Certifications to validate AI proficiency through the free OpenAI Academy. With a goal of certifying 10 million Americans by 2030, starting with partners like Walmart, these initiatives aim to make AI training accessible, relevant, and tied directly to workforce needs.
AI agents could disrupt the retail media market if offline shopping shifts online faster and consumers adopt agent-driven purchasing. Ads in Copilot have 73% higher click-through rates, 16% stronger conversion rates, and 33% shorter purchase journeys than traditional search. In cases with purchase intent, Copilot increased purchases within 30 minutes by 53%. This performance threatens retail media's core revenue streams, particularly on-site and off-site advertising. For now, adoption of AI-enabled shopping is limited, leaving a window for retailers and brands to adapt.
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Facebook is reviving the poke feature with a prominent profile placement and a new tracking hub.
There are different ways to implement blurs in video games, from basic box blur to the efficient Dual Kawase Blur. This article goes over their mathematical principles and performance trade-offs. It even shows interactive visualizations and benchmarks to help understand the impact of different blur algorithms on visual quality and GPU performance.
It can be challenging to prevent secrets from being logged. There's no single solution - instead, one can use multiple imperfect methods for defense-in-depth. This article covers these methods: better data architecture, transformations, domain primitives, log formatters, tests, scanners, and pre-processors.
Whop's Rails test suite runtime was cut in half by using TestProf and StackProf to identify performance bottlenecks. The biggest win came from disabling Rails' verbose SQL logging and query log tags in the test environment, which eliminated I/O overhead from thousands of database queries being written to disk. Additional optimizations included disabling Sentry logging during tests and addressing FactoryBot overhead, reducing single process test runs from ~25 minutes to ~12 minutes and CI runs from ~4 minutes to ~2 minutes.
Being technically skilled is a good start to advancing your career, but eventually, it will not be enough to stand out, as everyone becomes skilled. Expanding your impact requires combining technical skills with product thinking, project execution, and people skills. The most important trait is agency: taking initiative to make things happen and continually improving in the open.
Using PNGs for game textures is suboptimal. There are better alternatives like KTX2 and DDS. These formats are designed for texture data, such as features like pregenerated mipmaps, cubemaps, and GPU-compatible compression (like BCn) for improved storage, VRAM usage, and performance. Tools like Zex can help export to these formats, as most image editors lack native support.
Podman is a better containerization tool than Docker due to its daemonless architecture. It is better for security and reduces single points of failure. Podman integrates well with systemd and Kubernetes, making deployment and management easier.
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Ck is a semantic grep tool that makes code search better by understanding meaning rather than just keywords. It offers drop-in grep compatibility with added features like semantic, hybrid, and JSON output search modes. The tool indexes code once for fast semantic searches and automatically excludes common build and cache directories.
Forket is a tool that enables the use of React Server Components (RSC) without requiring a specific framework like Next.js. It works by splitting code into client and server versions, building a component dependency graph, and managing the serialization and hydration of components. To use it, run Forket during the build process to transform the code and then integrate runtime glue code into the HTTP server to handle component streaming and hydration.
This research paper from OpenAI investigates why language models like ChatGPT hallucinate. Current training and evaluation methods inadvertently reward guessing over admitting uncertainty, as accuracy-focused scoreboards prioritize correct answers, even if obtained through chance. This incentivizes models to guess instead of abstaining when unsure, leading to confident errors on low-frequency facts that are difficult to predict.
Providing structure to AI coding workflows improves output and shifts developer roles towards higher-level tasks. For example, devs can use markdown backlogs, role simulation, and custom tool libraries to improve Claude Code's capabilities.
Google Chrome launched on September 2, 2008, with a multi-process architecture that isolated tabs into separate processes for better stability, along with the V8 JavaScript engine that improved web app performance. Over its 17-year history, Chrome has continuously focused on four core principles: speed, security, stability, and simplicity. The browser evolved from a small skunkworks project by ex-Firefox engineers at Google into a platform used by billions. It pioneered technologies like SPDY (which became HTTP/2) and QUIC (which became HTTP/3).
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This is an interview with Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM and Swift, about his new programming language Mojo, which is designed to address the performance and portability challenges of modern AI hardware by combining Python-like syntax with metaprogramming and type system features.
This guide goes over the necessary high-school-level math concepts like vectors, matrices, and projections, essential for understanding LLM inference.
This dev tried to create a new terminal UI library in Rust, but ultimately concluded that the potential gains in performance were outweighed by the increased complexity and development challenges, leading them to abandon the project.
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OpenAI is developing an AI-powered hiring platform to connect businesses and employees. The service will put OpenAI in competition with LinkedIn. OpenAI plans to launch the OpenAI Jobs Platform by mid-2026. The company is interested in expanding into several new markets beyond its core offering.
Stripe is funding a new blockchain company called Tempo aimed at high-volume processing of stablecoins. It has already enlisted an eye-popping list of partners, including Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Lead Bank, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, and Visa, to use or offer the blockchain for everything from agentic payments to remittances. Matt Huang, Stripe board member and co-founder of Paradigm, one of the most prestigious crypto VC firms, has signed on to lead the project. Tempo will be run as an independent company.
An ant queen from the species Messor ibericus was observed producing cloned males of another species, Messor structor. The two species split about 5 million years ago. When the Messor ibericus queen makes daughters, she mixes her DNA with sperm to create hybrids, but when she makes sons, she erases her own DNA entirely, resulting in males that are exact clones. The queen had stored the sperm of the other species in her reproductive tract, resulting in sons with the other species' genome.
JetBlue Airways has agreed to use Amazon's Project Kuiper to provide Wi-Fi service for a quarter of its fleet. Customers will gain access to the service starting in 2027. Amazon plans to begin testing a beta version of Kuiper with customers later in 2025 or early next year. Kuiper is pushing to sell future capacity on its network, which is expected to have around 3,200 satellites when built out.
Reddit used a simple and scalable queue architecture to record upvotes that scaled well, but broke in all sorts of tricky ways. The company eventually moved to durable queues, which enabled failed jobs to resume from their last completed step, meaning no data was lost when there were program crashes. Durable queues work by combining task queues with durable workflows, which helps reliably orchestrate workflows of many parallel tasks. Architecturally, they resemble conventional queues, but use a persistent store as both message broker and backend.
Some agents feel magical while others feel frustrating. Product managers need to architect for the magical experience. This post walks through the different layers of AI agent architecture. It demonstrates how architectural choices play out in practice using concrete examples. Agent architecture is like a stack where each layer represents a product decision.
DeepSeek is developing an AI model designed to carry out multi-step actions on users' behalf with minimal direction. The system is meant to learn and improve based on its prior actions. Since its R1 model, the Chinese upstart has only put out minor upgrades. While local media attributes R2's delay to DeepSeek's determination to get it right, others have speculated about various glitches in training or development.
Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million in cash. The companies aim to close the deal in Atlassian's fiscal second quarter. Atlassian plans to take Arc's SaaS application experience and power user features, Dia's AI and elegance, speed, and sort of svelte nature, and Atlassian's enterprise know-how, and work out how to put all that together into Dia. Established in 2019, The Browser Company competes against some of the world's largest companies, including Google and Apple.
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