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Visa has launched Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard has introduced Agent Pay, both enabling agentic AI to shop for users. The tools use consumer inputs to personalize recommendations, make purchases, and suggest payment methods. They join a broader trend of agentic commerce led by companies like PayPal, Amazon, and OpenAI.
More than 50 percent of Old Girls Club members chose to pay a $10 monthly fee when pricing was introduced to what began as a free Slack community. The high conversion rate reflected a high-trust, high-engagement environment where members saw tangible value in peer connection and participation. Instead of using growth hacks or email campaigns, the founder created momentum by spotlighting power users, giving members product influence, and creating rituals that encouraged people to invite others.
Most creators rely on platform, copywriting, and design to compete, but these alone rarely make content stand out. Unique content consistently uses six ingredients: understanding your audience through direct research, developing original concepts and points of view, writing with clarity and precision, designing in a way that supports the idea, distributing content where your audience already spends time, and improving based on performance data rather than trends.
This 10-day course led by Chase Dimond guides users through how to optimize their LinkedIn profiles, create and sell a digital product using Stan Store, and build a content and sales system. It includes daily 30-minute lessons that cover growth tactics, monetization strategies, and funnel setup without complex tools. Participants need a Stan Store subscription (30-day free trial included) to take part.
Quso streamlines social media content creation and management. It offers tools for transforming long videos into short clips, generating posts, and scheduling content across platforms. It includes features for subtitle generation, content repurposing, and AI video editing.
Ad curation packages ad inventory using contextual and data signals to improve targeting, efficiency, and brand safety, shifting control from open exchanges to curated environments. Over 80% of nonsocial programmatic display spend now flows through private marketplaces or direct deals. Its benefits include better performance, simplified buying, and privacy-safe data use, but its challenges include increased complexity, higher costs, and potential targeting limitations. Key players include publishers, SSPs, agencies, advertisers, and data providers, with AI and standardization driving further adoption across channels like CTV, mobile apps, and digital out-of-home.
Brand visibility today is largely determined by how content performs on algorithm-driven platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Short-form, trend-based content tends to dominate because it aligns with what algorithms reward, often pushing brands to prioritize metrics over the message. However, the strongest performers rebalance this distribution power with emotionally resonant storytelling that builds long-term brand equity and promotes customer loyalty.
Once hailed as a marketing breakthrough, NFTs have become a liability for brands like Nike, DraftKings, and Dapper Labs. Once-promising web3 ventures are being shut down, and buyers are suing over lost value, unfulfilled perks, and alleged securities violations. Studies suggest NFTs may even hurt brand perception, especially for luxury goods. As NFT valuations continue to crash, companies are left dealing with legal fallout and little return on their blockchain bets.
6 lessons from writing 100 LinkedIn comments in 2.5 hours.
The differences between a CMO, VP of Marketing, marketing manager, and specialist.
Brands are increasingly making their Hollywood debuts as they look to reach ad-averse consumers.
Using origin-aware animations, selecting the right easing (often ease-out or custom curves), and using spring-based interactions gives animations a more natural feel. Understanding CSS properties like clip-path is also necessary for precise control and impactful effects. These techniques when used together help create animations that surpass "good" to look and feel "great."
Concurrent optimistic updates in React Query are tough, especially when complex logic or multiple mutations are involved. Optimistic updates can be improved by using query cancellation to prevent inconsistencies from delayed queries. A strategy to prevent over-invalidation after a mutation is by checking if related mutations are already in progress before invalidating, thus avoiding UI flickering.
Relying too heavily on AI can lower critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and overall understanding of code. Instead, devs should use AI as a collaborator rather than a crutch.
Contract devs often receive lower pay and benefits than full-time employees, even though they have less job security. Miscommunication about job roles is common, leading to contractors being assigned tasks different from what was initially described. This situation results in contractors getting the downsides of both contract and full-time work, often feeling like second-class citizens.
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Gemini Coder is a free and open-source VS Code extension for AI-assisted programming that prioritizes user control over context. It allows users to manually select folders and files to provide context for AI interactions. Gemini Coder supports Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.
CSVForge is a browser-based tool that instantly converts and transforms CSV and Excel files into clean, structured data formats like JSON and XML.
Google heavily subsidizes the development of the four major web browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. The US Department of Justice is attempting to force Google to stop funding competitors and divest from Chrome, arguing that these actions violate antitrust laws. This action would eliminate over 80% of the funding for all of the major browsers.
This developer repurposed an old Kindle into a school dashboard for their daughter. The project involved jailbreaking the Kindle, setting up SSH access, and creating a backend API using Cloudflare Workers to fetch and display real-time weather, public transport data, and the school timetable. The API renders this information into a grayscale PNG image, which is then displayed on the Kindle's screen.
This deep dive into limiting string length shows the inconsistencies and potential issues arising from different character encoding methods. It goes over various encoding schemes like UTF-8, UTF-16, Unicode code points, and grapheme clusters, showing how their differing length calculations can lead to bugs and poor user experiences across different layers of an application. Devs need to be intentional and consistent with their chosen counting method and they should understand how the programming language they use handles strings. Counting by normalized Unicode code points is generally the best approach.
Perfect Wiki is a $250K annual revenue SaaS product for internal knowledge bases within Microsoft Teams that was built by a dev who identified a pain point with the built-in Wiki, focused on simplicity, and prioritized user feedback.
SurfSense is an open-source, self-hostable AI research agent for personal knowledge management that integrates external sources like search engines, Slack, and GitHub with uploaded content.
A security incident involving compromised Node.js test CI hosts was reported on March 21 and remediated by the Node.js security team, who validated commit SHAs, rebuilt compromised hosts, and implemented comprehensive audits.
To prevent technical debt from ruining a software project, prioritize and address it alongside new features by including it in the work backlog in a balanced way.
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Meta has launched Meta AI, a standalone AI app built on the company's latest Llama 4 model. Its standout feature is the Discover feed, which lets users see how their connections use Meta AI. Users have full control over what gets shared, but opting out of having user data scraped to train Meta's AI is nearly impossible. The app is designed to pair with Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses - users can start a conversation via voice through the glasses and then continue in the app or web interface later.
Waymo and Toyota have announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi technology to personally-owned vehicles. The partnership could result in Waymo incorporating Toyota's vehicles into its ride-hailing fleet. Waymo has previously worked with many other automakers, but most of these partnerships only resulted in the companies producing modified vehicles for testing or for Waymo to use in its fleets. The company now serves 250,000 paid rides per week through its commercial driverless ride-hailing services in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin regions.
Tesla was the most quoted battery brand in the second half of last year. It was also the second-most quoted inverter brand - its Powerwall 3 includes an integrated inverter that works for both solar and storage applications. Tesla's growth is lowering storage and solar prices. It is unclear whether brand backlash or equipment shortages will affect Tesla's marketplace share this year.
Intel's 14A chip node will feature a mysterious 'turbo cell' technology designed to boost CPU and GPU speeds. It will offer a 15% to 20% performance-per-watt increase over the 18A process. The 14A process will arrive in 2027 alongside a '14-E' node developed to contain additional feature extensions. The company is also currently developing another node called 18A-P, scheduled to arrive next year, designed to deliver enhanced performance to a broader set of foundry customers.
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Meta's Llama API is now available in a limited preview. The API allows developers to build Llama-driven services, tools, and applications. It comes with an evaluation suite for testing the quality of custom models. Meta says it won't use customer data from the API to train its models. Models built using the Llama API can be transferred to another host. Access to the API will be expanded in the coming weeks and months.
While most bots are just trying to discover new content, there are some created to spam, scrape content, or hack - one way to deal with these bots is by using zip bombs. A zip bomb is a relatively small compressed file that can expand into a very large file that can overwhelm a machine. This post walks readers through how to create a zip bomb to prevent malicious bots from accessing their servers. While zip bombs can be easily detected and circumvented, they are good enough for protecting servers from unsophisticated bots.
The relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft has become strained. The companies' chief executive officers are increasingly at odds over the computing power Microsoft provides to OpenAI, the access OpenAI gives Microsoft to its models, and whether OpenAI's AI systems will soon achieve humanlike intelligence. The companies wield tremendous power over one another: Microsoft can effectively block OpenAI's effort to restructure into an independent for-profit company, and OpenAI's board can prevent Microsoft from accessing its most cutting-edge technology. While they helped each other become power players in generative AI, they are now preparing for independent futures.
There are many stories about companies replacing human engineers with AI. This thread contains responses from real engineers that discuss the current industry landscape. While there is a lot of hype about AI, much of it is built on a misunderstanding of what real engineering work is. Most of an engineer's time is spent thinking and talking about the problem and solutions, not coding. The hard part of software engineering isn't making new code - a large portion of the work is dealing with people, understanding what they really want or need, and helping them understand it.
Performance optimization is hard because you have to explore dozens of cases manually, iterate with inadequate tooling, and merge incompatible optimizations while dealing with both corporate greed and cultural apathy.
The company is seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.
Zero-day attacks are expected to continue increasing over time - the lag time before anyone notices these threats can be very rewarding for hackers.
Starlink's new 12-month residential service plans bring the price of the dish and router down to $0 in select markets.
Apple chose not to include rsync 3.x in macOS due to licensing issues, instead using a variant called openrsync, which does most of what rsync does - those who need to have the 3.x version of rsync can install it via Homebrew.
About a quarter of all clinical trials and early drug development now happens in China.
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Meta has introduced a new standalone AI app, expanding its efforts to integrate AI features into consumer experiences more directly.
Meta revealed a limited preview of its Llama API at LlamaCon, giving developers tools to fine-tune, deploy, and evaluate models from the Llama series.
A researcher identified syntax-semantics issues in LLMs and proposed language equivariance to address them. The approach suggests checking if LLMs' moral judgments remain consistent after translation. Language-equivariant LLMs could represent a deeper understanding beyond mere syntax.
Relational Graph Transformers can help address enterprise data challenges and power applications like customer analytics, recommendations, fraud detection, and forecasting.