
WP Rocket WordPress caching plugin will now automatically optimize LCP Core Web Vitals sitewide automatically.
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“A new AI era begins”
Signs displaying that confident declaration were plastered all over Microsoft’s campus when I visited on Monday. I wasn’t sure if it referred just to the Windows-centric AI media briefing the company was holding or also to its Build developer conference, which was starting the following day. But coming the week after OpenAI’s unveiling of its ChatGPT Voice Mode and Google’s

Mastercard said Wednesday that it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal.
In its latest software update rolling out this week, Mastercard is integrating artificial intelligence into its fraud-prediction technology that it expects will be able to see patterns in stolen cards faster and allow banks to replace them before t

Chip machine-maker ASML reportedly has the power to remotely disable its equipment in TSMC’s fabs, should China invade Taiwan. TSMC is the biggest client of ASML’s EUV lithography systems, which use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths to manufacture the hi

It’s been a busy week for AI policymakers. The EU has sealed the deal on its AI Act. Meanwhile, in Seoul, South Korea, 16 world-leading companies have signed the “Frontier AI Safety Commitments,” and a group of countries have promised to wor

The European Space Agency (ESA) has enlisted two companies to develop cargo shuttle vehicles for low Earth orbit. ESA awarded the new contracts to the Exploration Company in Germany and Thales Alenia Space in Italy. The services are due to deliver supplies to t

DeepL, the Cologne-based unicorn that has been rivalling machine translation giants such as Google Translate, today announced a new investment of $300mn (€277mn), reaching a $2bn valuation. Born from online dictionary Linguee, the startup was founded in 2017

The Internet is not exactly a green technology. Whether it’s the electricity gobbled up by servers, PCs and other tools that access and deliver the online world, or the e-Waste that’s piling up in landfills, being connected has its environmental downsides.
Comcast, though, says i

Nvidia Corporation, the world’s leading GPU chip design company, is poised to announce its latest quarterly earnings after the bell on Wednesday, and market watchers are keenly focused on the results—and what they will mean for the company’s stock value—especially regarding the H200 chips and the transition toward the new Blackwell architecture.
Nvidia’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked the actress Scarlett Johansson—who famously voiced an AI assistant in the 2013 film Her—to do the voice for ChatGPT. She said no. So OpenAI concocted a voice that sounds a lot like that of the actress, and used it without telling her. Now the actress has lawyered up and OpenAI has egg

As protests continue to engulf college campuses across the U.S., former Merck CEO Ken Frazier and former American Express CEO Ken Chenault see the unrest as a microcosm of broader society, and a crucial learning moment for business leaders everywhere. Frazier and Chenault share their unfiltered advice about corporate DEI and ESG efforts, what people misunderstand about affirmative action, and how to lead with courage in 2024.
This is an abridged transcript of an interview


This article explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI Overviews, including lower CPCs, misinformation, and potential traffic loss for content creators.
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A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/22/you-should-keep-a-developer-s-journal/

In today’s deeply divided world, where a spirit of isolationism and separation se

Struggling to recover from a Google update? This checklist can help. Get back on track and maintain your website's organic visibility.
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Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Linnea an

Google keynote speakers demonstrated how AI Overviews will prioritize advertising over organic search
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Discover the importance of header tags in web design and SEO. Optimize content structure and improve search rankings with these best practices.
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Google and Microsoft have spent the last few weeks unspooling enormous ambitions for artificial intelligence, but their smallest-scale showings of this technology—what they call on-device AI, but which you can also think of as offline or cloud-free AI—look the most interesting. And unsettling.
Both companies pose the

This post was sponsored by DebugBear. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Keeping your website fast is important for user experience and SEO. The Core Web Vitals initiative by Google provides a set of metrics to help you understand the performance of your website. The three Core Web Vitals metrics are: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Interaction to Next Paint (INP) This post focuses on the recently introduced INP metric and what you can d
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Termosolární elektrárny obvykle ukládají získané teplo do tavených solí. Mají sice vhodné fyzikální vlastnosti, ale také řadu nevýhod. Pozoruhodnou alternativu tavených solí představuje sopečný popel. Mohl by se stát novým praktickým materiálem pro uložení termální energie. Stačí si ho nasbírat někde u sopky. http://www.osel.cz/13485-sopecny-popel-je-vynikajici-levna-baterie-na-termalni-solarni-energii.html

TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U.S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court. The suit claims the federal law that took effect on April 24, 2024,

Wix's new AI image tools are a milestone, makes stock image libraries and 3rd party image editors virtually obsolete
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Will AI take your marketing job to the next level? Yes! Learn how to use generative AI to improve your campaigns & get higher ROI.
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WordPress 6.5 introduces native lastmod support, improving crawl efficiency for search engines.
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SEO job listings dropped 37% in Q1, though senior roles increased slightly amid economic pressures.
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The SERPs are a volatile place right now. Since March 2024, the SEO industry has seen significant disruptions, with Google rolling out its latest algorithm changes. From the deindexing of websites to the delivery of manual penalties, site owners and SEO professionals have found themselves in a tough spot as Google attempts to clean up search results. So what’s the path forward? How can you keep your site in good standing? If you’re looking for strategies to help you not just survive but thr

Over the past couple of years, the Gulf states have been putting their oil money to use buying up thousands of the latest AI chips. However, thus far they have been relatively quiet when it comes to investing in quantum technology. That is

The EU’s AI Act is set to enter force next month after receiving a final rubber-stamp from the European Council. Ministers today endorsed a political deal on the landmark law, billed as the world’s first comprehensive rules on AI. The law applies a risk-based

Amid a global race for semiconductor independence, the UK announced today a designated institute that will oversee its £1bn strategy on growing its chips sector. At the same time, Belgium-based research hub imec has land

Khan Academy’s AI assistant will now be free to K-12 teachers in the U.S., thanks to a new deal with Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday during Microsoft’s Build conference.
Microsoft is donating access to its Microsoft Azure infrastructure to give teachers free use of the tool, which previously required a $4 per month subscription to pay for the cost of the underlying AI service.
“They just ha

Google won’t commit to providing websites with Search Console data on traffic generated from AI search results.
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Switzerland-based Limula today announced a raise of $6.8mn (€6.2mn) to further develop its technology, which aims to automate cell therapy manufacturing. Gene and cell therapies have emerged as a promising treatment for life-threatening or difficult-to-man

Over the past couple of years, the Gulf states have been putting their oil money to use buying up thousands of the latest AI chips. However, thus far they have been relatively quiet when it comes to investing in quantum technology. That is

Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said Monday they will keep operating in Minnesota now that state lawmakers have passed a measure that will increase driver pay, but at a lower r

California’s top state court on Tuesday will consider a labor union’s challenge to a ballot measure allowing app-based services such as Uber and Lyft to classify drivers in the state as independent contractors rather than as employees with more benefits.
The seven-member California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in San Francisco in a la

Europe’s landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a technology used in business and everyday life.
The European Union’s AI A

Ready to conquer international SEO? This detailed checklist will take you from beginner to advanced practitioner, including using hreflang setups to unleash global growth.
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Spoofingové útoky představují vážnou, potenciálně smrtící hrozbu letecké i námořní dopravě. Velká Británii vyvíjí účinnou obranu v podobě kvantového systému Quantum Inertial Navigation System (Q-INS), který by se měl stát záložní navigací. V současné době probíhají testy na palubě letounu RJ100 Airborne Technology Demonstrator. http://www.osel.cz/13484-kvantova-navigace-pomuze-letounum-proti-utokum-falesnym-gps-signalem.html

Six months ago, the world’s attention was on the U.K., where attendees from national governments and international tech companies convened for the first global AI safety summit to discuss the threat and potential of artificial intelligence as the world watched.
On Tuesday, a smaller number of attendees will gather in Seo

Ben and Ryan talk with Vikram Chatterji, founder and CEO of Galileo, a company focused on building and evaluating generative AI apps. They discuss the challenges of benchmarking and evaluating GenAI models, the importance of data quality in AI systems, and the trade-offs between using pre-trained models and fine-tuning models with custom data. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/21/how-to-train-your-dream-machine/

For the third time in roughly a week, a major tech company is showing off its near-term plans for the future of generative artificial intelligence. This time, it’s Microsoft’s turn.
The company will kick off its Build developer conference Tuesday in Seattle—and is expected to unveil how the Windows operating system will make AI computers the new standard. The three-day event comes a few months after CEO Satya Nadella said 2024 would be the year that AI becomes the “first-class part

Duda announced new AI Assistant tool features that enables digital agencies to handle more clients without adding more costs
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South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence, following up on an inaugural AI safety meeting in Britain last year that drew a diverse crowd of tech luminaries, researchers and officials.
The gathering in Seoul aims to build on

A parent asked a question in a private Facebook group in April 2024: Does anyone with a child who is both gifted and disabled have any experience with New York City public schools? The parent received a seemingly helpful answer that laid out some characteristics of a specific school, beginning with the context that “I have a child who is also 2e,” meaning twice exceptional.
On a Facebook group for swapping unwanted items ne

Elon Musk traveled to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Sunday to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation.
Wearing a green Batik shirt, Musk was greeted with a garland of flower petals at a community health clinic in Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, where he launched the Starlink service alongside Indonesian ministers.
Indonesia, a vast archipel

Google CEO downplays concerns over AI search impacting website traffic, claims it drives more engagement.
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This February, the UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare was attacked by hackers, causing a nationwide outage of the network with huge ripple effects for doctors and patients.
Three months later, the U.S. government is stepping in to commit more than $50 million toward preventing fut

Pew Research Center study reveals widespread digital decay: 38% webpages, government links, tweets vanish within years.
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As digital platforms multiply and user engagement becomes more and more fragmented, understanding how to effectively distribute your content across various touchpoints is more crucial than ever. So how do you tailor your strategy to meet users wherever they are in their journey? How do you create quality content that resonates and connects at every stage? Join us live on May 29, as we show you how to successfully navigate the ever-evolving landscape of content strategy. In this insightful


Remote and hybrid working situations continue to teach us a lot about what effective and efficient collaboration truly looks like. Over the years we’ve been introduced to new technologies and different ways teams can better work together to align and execute on shared goals. As companies continue to refine their hybrid work approach, adapting the in-office experience to incorporate the great things we learned from working remotely will be key.
I’ve learned three big les

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew — including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s — from West Texas to the edge of space on Sunday, resuming its centerpiece space tourism business for the first time since its suborbital New Shepard rocket was grounded in 2022.

A plan to boost pay for Uber and Lyft drivers in Minnesota that lawmakers believe would prevent the companies from leaving the market advanced in the state Legislature on Sunday before the midnight deadline.
The House passed the compensation bill but the measure

Ex-Google engineer blasts company's panicked, poorly motivated AI projects lacking true user needs.
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This year we are asking familiar questions about your experience, but also have some new questions about what embedded programming technology you are using and what AI ethical responsibilities are most important to you. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/20/the-good-the-bad-and-the-disruptive-let-us-know-where-you-stand-in-the-2024-annual-developer-survey/

Tesla is working to appease some European leasing companies after the automaker’s repeated retail price cuts tanked their fleets’ value and its slow service and expensive repairs alienated their corporate customers.
The efforts include unofficial discounts on purchases of

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Wakelet is one of my favorite tools for digital scrapbooking

In addition to unionization for more humane working conditions, employees are on the front lines fighting for a say in how companies deploy their products, and to whom, to ensure they’re not being weaponized.
Big tech companies have seen more of this activism in the last few years, with protests regarding issues ranging from facial recognition products sold to governments to virtual reality products used to train soldiers to be more “effective” at their jobs. I’ll leave it to you

The American Cancer Society predicts that new cancer cases in the U.S. will hit an all-time high this year of over 2 million. That amounts to nearly 5,500 cancer diagnoses a day. In nearly all kinds of cancer, a diagnosis—and often decisions about treatment—hinges on the laboratory analysis of an abnormal tissue sample, a.k.a. a biopsy. In the U.S. alone, there are many millions of biopsies performed annually—ov

If you ever need a reminder of your own cosmic insignificance, just try to get some actual human tech support for Facebook or Instagram.
For years, no such thing existed. You are an ant to a big tech company like Meta, so if you need to hash out a specific problem—like, say, your account getting hacked and subsequently suspended—the best you could do was fill out

Whether you're starting from square one or looking to refine your expertise, follow our step-by-step blueprint to elevate your SEO skills to new heights.
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Google might update the helpful content signals so that new pages can rank. This is why that may not be enough
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Stará Agora patří k hlavním athénským archeologickým areálům, navíc je z ní pěkný pohled na Akropoli a na Areopagos. Projdeme několik chrámů, radnici, vězení (patrně i Sókratovo), velké vodní hodiny, cestu slavnostních průvodů a skončíme u rekonstruované obří Attalovy stoy, v níž je teď muzeum, ale to necháme na jindy. http://www.osel.cz/13483-stara-agora-v-athenach.html

Moving to Amsterdam was eye-opening. Having grown up in the car-centric UK and struggled to cycle in London, it felt as though the Dutch embrace of bikes was innate, something that simply happened due to a quirk of national character. This, of cour


Uncover the ethical implications of using AI in SEO. Find out how to navigate the challenges of AI technologies to create accurate and unbiased content.
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