
As Google’s high-profile antitrust trial reaches the end of week three, the future of its gargantuan ad business is in flux. The director of intelligence at digital advertising watchdog Check My Ads, Arielle Garcia has been in every court session to cover the DOJ’s arguments and Google’s defense. As a veteran of the ad industry, she shares how the trial is poised not only to disrupt the digital ad landscape but also to affect democracy and journalism as we know it.
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It’s a tired, tired cliché, but if you’re like me, working smarter, not harder is truly the only way to live.
And if you use Windows 11 on the regular, you absolutely owe it to yourself to squeeze every last bit of time-savings out of it. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to do just that. Here’s a handful of the ones I find most useful.
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Matt Mullenweg temporarily unbans WP Engine to save WordPress users from further hardship due to licensing fee disagreement
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Former President Donald Trump called for the criminal prosecution of Google over what he said was the tech giant’s bias toward his presidential opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, in online search results.
Trump appeared to be referring to a report released this week from the Media Research Center, a conservative group, that claims

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday charged three Iranian operatives with hacking former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in what the agency said was an attempt to interfere with the election in November.
The three men, all Iranian nationals residing in Iran, were charged with material support for terrorism, computer fraud, wire fraud, and ident

Yoast SEO WordPress co-founder suggests creating a board of contributors for transparency and contributor representation
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Journalist Ken Klippenstein was deemed by X to have crossed a line when he shared a link to a dossier about Ohio Sen. JD Vance. That has resulted in a ban from the social media platform, and prompted questions over company owner Elon Musk’s supposed neutrality over when and how he intervenes over questionable content.
The dossier, which Klippenstein published on Substack and linked to via his X account, reportedly came from a hack of the Trump campaign believed to have been launche

In the high-stakes showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Elon Musk blinked.
Musk’s social media site X has complied with Alexandre de Moraes’s orders and requested its service be reestablished in the country, two sources said Thursd

V současné době se stále více začínají projevovat neblahé dopady energetické koncepce prosazované v Evropské unii. Ukazuje se, že samotné obnovitelné zdroje přechod k nízkým emisím zajistit nedokáží a je potřeba stabilní nízkoemisní zdroj v podobě jaderné energetiky. Ještě stále se však objevují studie organizace Fakta o klimatu, že uhelné zdroje můžeme hned zavřít a jaderné zdroje vlastně také nepotřebujeme, vše zajistí levná elektřina z fotovoltaiky a větrníků. Podívejme se na fakta, která uka

“So no one else uses chatgpt as an unpaid therapist?” TikTok user Ash Donner asks in a video. While her friends seem shocked by her confession, she’s not alone. A growing number of people are turning to ChatGPT to ask for help navigating friendships, romantic relationships, or for general advice on how to live a better life.

Federal regulators who say Google holds an illegal monopoly over the technology that matches online advertisers to publishers are vastly underestimating the competition the tech giant faces, an expert hired by Google

Institut Čínské akademie věd Hefei Institutes of Physical Science zdolal rekord amerických laboratoří National High Magnetic Laboratory z roku 2017, když na rezistivním elektromagnetu vytvořili magnetické pole o indukci 42 tesla. Jde o experimentální zařízení, které poslouží výzkumu i vývoji elektromagnetických aplikací. http://www.osel.cz/13706-v-cine-spustili-nejsilnejsi-rezistivni-magnet-na-svete.html

In 1859, Charles Darwin unveiled a theory of Evolution that shook the scientific world: the survival of the fittest, where nature thrives on ruthless competition and efficiency. This dog-eat-dog approach profoundly influenced how millions perceive progress for over a century—we celebrated competition (at the expense of compassion) as the engine of evolution.
Fast-forward, now, to the 21st century. We’re at an exciting and brave time where technology is bending the very arc of what

A number of messaging services continue to tout their security as assured through encryption. But in a world where some of those services, like Telegram, flip-flop on their privacy policies, security-conscious people are hunting out tools like Tor, the anonymous communications network, says Pavel Zoneff, director of strategic communications at the Tor Project.
The Tor Project is the nonprofit organization that maintains the Tor network. And Zoneff was in Berlin, Germany, earlier th

Keith Gill (aka “Roaring Kitty”) returned to social media this summer. Three years earlier, the Reddit influencer had helped sparked a meme stocks craze among retail investors that led to the GameStop stock short squeeze. The surge in stock price was a disaster for online brokerage platform Robinhood: The company halted the trading of GameStop and other stocks in January 2021 for a day and then only let consumers close out trades on the stock, barring them from placing new ones. Robinhood an

Explore the benefits of using faceted navigation on large ecommerce websites to enhance user experience and optimize crawl budget.
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Amsterdam-based scaleup Mews has bagged $100mn in credit financing as it looks to swallow up competitors and become a market leader in SaaS software for the hospitality industry. Vista Credit Partners, the credit-investing arm of tech-focused private equity firm Vi

UK startup Pact has raised £9mn in funding and opened a new factory to scale up the “world’s first” sustainable and scalable biomaterial made from collagen — the primary building block of your skin. The material

This month, the European Commission published Mario Draghi’s long-awaited EU competitiveness report. Its key finding? The EU must overcome the innovation gap to prevent economic slowdown. According to the report, only four out of the 50 leading tech companies

Arm wants to upgrade the brains inside our devices. The chip designer — whose architectures power 99% of smartphones — envisions AI bringing a new wave of breakthroughs to our handsets. The company outlined this plan after the release of Llama 3.2 — Meta’s first ope

It’s not news that Gen Z and millennials are using social media platforms to get their news nowadays. No longer just a place to watch your favorite steamer play League of Legends for 10 hours, Twitch is the latest social media platform joining the likes of X and TikTok as a destination

The European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) published this week an analysis of the global efforts to mitigate the proliferation of space debris.
In the report, the institute found that space debris mitigation efforts from governments, NGOs, and companies are gaining steam.
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Learn how to set up your first paid search campaign with this step-by-step guide, covering goals, keyword research, ad copy, and more.
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For about a decade, Meta has been working on an audacious project: AR glasses stylish enough to pass as regular eyewear, and yet so powerful that they could one day replace the smartphone. “When we started, we actually thought that there was less than a 10 percent chance that we could make it happen,” admits Meta AR devices VP Ming Hua.
And yet, at this week’s Meta developer conference, the company showed off Orion: An AR glasses prototype that comes closer to this vision than any other dev

We chat with Deedy Das, a Principal at Menlo Ventures, who began his career as a software engineer at Facebook and Google. He then dipped a toe in the startup world, spending time at the company now know as Glean. More recently he started a career as a venture capitalist, investing in AI and Infra out of the Anthology Fund, a partnership between Menlo Ventures and Anthropic. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/27/deedy-das-meta-google-menlo-ventures-ai-anthropic/

Worried about your teen’s Instagram use? Faced with growing pressure to do more to stop online harm, the social media platform has rolled out a major new update to protect young people and give parents more control.
With many teens spending

Squarespace's latest updates solidify it as a leading choice for businesses seeking an all-in-one website and SEO solution
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On September 24, Ubisoft abruptly canceled its appearance at the Tokyo Game Show and postponed all press previews of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Wednesday, we learned why. Anti-DEI backlash has sent the company spinning.
The Paris-based video game publisher pushed the release of its biggest game of the year from November 12 to February 14 of next year—and warned investors that net bookings would no longer exceed the 2.3 billion euros of last year, but come in at

U.K. transport officials and police said Thursday they are investigating a “cyber-security incident” after users of public Wi-Fi networks at the country’s biggest railway stations reported being shown anti-Muslim messages.
Passengers trying to log onto the Wi-Fi at 19 stations, including Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street and several London terminuses, on Wednesday evening were met by a page reading, “We love you, Europe,” followed by an anti

Millions of websites worldwide are unable to update thanks to an ongoing dispute that has bubbled over between a core backbone of the internet and a popular hosting platform that brings it to many users.
On Wednesday, Matt Mullenweg, an entrepreneur who developed WordPress and founded Automattic, a provider of free WordPress, shut off access to WP Engine, a platform that many users deploy in order to host their WordPress sites. The reason: a dispute over the extent to which Mullenw

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OpenAI CTO Murati departs as company is set to abandon its nonprofit roots
It was just last year that Fas

Americká společnost Westinghouse Electric Company vyvinula velmi kompaktní a vysoce bezpečný mikroreaktor eVinci, jehož průměr nedosahuje ani 3 metry. Pohání ho palivo TRISO a generuje až 5 MWe elektrického výkonu a 15 MWth tepelného výkonu pro civilní energetiku, vojenské a výzkumné základny, těžební a vrtné stanice nebo třeba pro výrobu vodíku. http://www.osel.cz/13705-westinghouse-finisuje-vyvoj-mikroreaktoru-evinci.html

Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Let’s build it together from scratch. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/26/masked-self-attention-how-llms-learn-relationships-between-tokens/

The love of it may be the root of all evil, but you can’t live without it: money. A good accountant can help you manage money, from your own personal stack to your business funds. Can AI help? While any good accountant will tell you that they are always the ones who sign the checks, AI can do plenty of tasks to make their work simpler, more efficient, and more effective for their clients. Here are some tips for how accountants can use AI.
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be controlled by its non-profit board, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a move that will make the company more attractive to investors.
The OpenAI non-profit will

There’s a popular adage among photography buffs—often attributed to Chase Jarvis—that the best camera is the one you have with you. In other words, It doesn’t matter how good a camera is if you don’t have it in your possession when you want to take a picture.
Nowadays, that would argue for the best camera being the one most of us really do have with us at all times: the one in our smartphone. But my brain has never

Místo, kde antický vodovod vstupuje do tunelu. Pokračování srpnového článku o naxijském vodovodu z 6. století před n. l., který je vážným kandidátem na nejdelší vodovod z řecké archaické doby. S dodatkem o stavu vody na Naxu letos koncem září. http://www.osel.cz/13704-jeste-k-antickemu-vodovodu-na-naxu.html

Spotify’s AI playlist-making function, once only available in the U.K and Australia, has finally made its way to the United States.
The feature, rolled out earlier this week in beta, allows Spotify Premium users to prompt a chatbot with whatever genre, emotion, or life event they want their music to represent. Spotify’s AI will in turn spew out a playlist, made up of tunes tht reflect both the prompt and user’s listening history.
Molly Holder, Spotify se

Kyle Wiens recognized something was wrong in July when his staff at iFixit, a website outlining how to fix common household items, began receiving alerts about high traffic on their cellphones. The development team behind the website began looking at the tool that tracks their web traffic (as a highly visited website, iFixit regularly keeps an eye on how many people visit the site). “It became pretty cle

By the end of the year, there will be an estimated 207 billion or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices with a large percentage within industrial environments. As industries across the globe grapple with the challenges of modern manufacturing and production, the rise of IoT promises to revolutionize industrial automation.
Automation is not only enhancing productivity but redefining what is possible in modern manufacturing. As

Google refreshed their spam policy documentation to tighten the focus, add new details, and make it easier to understand
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Learn how to handle SEO international laws and regulations when operating across multiple territories. Ensure compliance and successful implementation of SEO strategies.
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Bunq has become the latest fintech to enter the crowded European stock trading market. The Amsterdam-based neobank yesterday announced its new Stocks product, which it claims is “tailored to digital nomads.” The Dutch bank already provides in-app portfolio inv

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

As part of the EU’s drive to become the first climate-neutral region globally by

Nebius today announced the launch of a new data centre in Paris — among the first

A new recreation of the Moon on Earth has sparked hopes of a “European renaissance” in space. Known as LUNA, the futuristic facility was inaugurated today in Cologne, Germany. The ceremony showcased several striking features, from a 700-square-metre replica o

Following a five-fold growth since 2018, VC investment in Europe’s defence tech is set to hit a record year in 2024, as it’s on course to reach $1bn. According to a new Dealroom report, Europe is now at the heart of an investment surge, as governments turn to

Robert Scoble summed up Mullenweg's decision to ban WP Engine: "Never seen a decision so universally hated in tech."
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Learn about why brand matters so much in 2024 and how educating users and search engines about your brand can increase traffic.
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Elon Musk and X asked a federal judge to dismiss former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s lawsuit claiming they defrauded him by canceling a partnership on the social media platform following a

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said Wednesday that she is leaving the high-profile artificial intelligence (AI) company after six and a half years.
“There’s never an ideal time to step away from a place one cherishes, yet this moment feels right,” Murati wrote in a statement she shared on X.
Murati has been

Audience first content is SEO content. Create high-quality, relevant content that appeals to both users and search engines with this detailed guide.
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Prince Harry said today’s youth is in the midst of an “epidemic” of anxiety, depression

Taking photographs used to be a careful, conscious act. Photos were selective, frozen moments in time carefully archived in albums and frames. Now, taking a photograph is almost as effortless and common as breathing – it’s something that people do all the time in the age of smartphone cameras with seemingly endless digital film.
But the downside to capturing every moment is that it creates a mountain of those moments to save for the future. Those photos can be easily lost if they’r

Social media platform X on Wednesday published its first transparency report since the company was purchased by Elon Musk. The report, which details content moderation practices, shows the company has removed millions of posts and accounts from

Meta hosted its annual Connect conference on Wednesday, which highlighted the social media giant’s push into its artificial intelligence and metaverse ambitions. CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the developer-centric event to reveal a slew of new hardware and AI features.
Fast Company rounded up a few key updates to come out of the flagship event.
Orion AR glasses
Among the most exciting anno

Discover how TikTok Search Ads can boost your holiday marketing strategy by targeting high-intent consumers with engaging, intent-driven video ads.
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Čínští Deep Blue Aerospace prováděli v neděli 22. září letový test raketového stupně pro opakované použití Nebula-1. Let probíhal dobře až do závěrečných okamžiků, kdy selhal řídicí systém, provedl přistávací manévr a vypnul motory, aniž by ale Nebula-1 byla na zemi. Došlo k nárazu, který raketu zdemoloval. http://www.osel.cz/13703-selhani-pri-pristani-cinska-opetovne-pouzitelna-raketa-nebula-1-tvrde-narazila.html

For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence technology improves, game studios are experimenting with generative AI to help build environments, assist gam


Sam Altman may be right that a bright AI future is coming, but the benefits may not be evenly distributed.
In a rare post on his personal blog on Monday, the OpenAI CEO heralded the coming of an AI-induced “Intelligence Age.” We’re verging on this new prosperity because “deep learning worked,” he writes. And