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Why is ARM down? Arm Holdings stock plunges on earnings report, despite AI chip boom

Just a day after chip giants Nvidia and TSMC saw their stock prices rise, opposite fortunes are affecting competitor Arm Holdings. Yesterday after the close of the markets, Arm reported its first quarter results for fiscal year 2025, and in pre-market trading this morning, its shares (ticke

Move over Google and Microsoft: Amazon’s putting $16.4 billion to develop cloud and gen AI infrastructure

Amazon.com is expected to join Google and Microsoft on Thursday in reporting a surge in capital spending on artificial intelligence as Big Tech companies rush to capitalize on the booming t

Video Advertising Metrics & Brand Advertising With Greg Jarboe via @sejournal, @theshelleywalsh

Learn about the future of video advertising metrics. Find out how the industry is shifting from reach to business outcomes for improved ad effectiveness.

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Research roadmap update: August 2024

An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/01/research-roadmap-update-august-2024/

UK chip incubator startups secure over £10M in funding


Twelve semiconductor startups taking part in the UK’s ChipStart scheme have raised over £10mn in funding from private investors and grants, the British government announced today. Launched in October 2023, ChipStart is an incubator programme. It aims to provid

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Net neutrality déjà vu: The fight to regulate broadband providers just won’t die

In February of 2017, Tom Rutledge, then-CEO of the telecom giant Charter, was asked on an investor call how changes in Washington were about to impact the company. At the time, analysts were curious about what would happen if the newly inaugurated Trump administration overturned the net neutrality rules that the Obama administration had put in place.

Broadband giants had

MrBeast, YouTube’s $700M star, is caught in a swirl of controversies

MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star and a philanthropic force with nearly unrivaled influence among young audiences, acknowledged Wednesday that he used “inappropriate language” in his early online days, as numerous controversies bubbled up around him and a former collaborator.

MrBeast, whose

How AI chatbots could improve civic engagement in the 2024 election

Earlier this year, the journalist Julia Angwin and Princeton professor Alondra Nelson tested leading AI models’ ability to answer questions about elections such as voter registration requirements. 

Angwin and Nelson rated GPT-4, Gemini, Mistral, Claud

23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki wants to take the struggling company private—then comes the real work

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing pioneer 23andMe unveiled a new product in May. Cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki had long promised that 23andMe would democratize genetics and, in the process, unleash a health revolution based on personalized genomic insights. But the company’s newest feature was decidedly more mundane: Through its telehealth service,

AI models lean left when it comes to politically charged questions

Large language models (LLMs) like those powering OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbots tend to produce responses aligned with left-of-center political beliefs, according to a new study of 24 major AI products that was published in the journal PLOS One.

David Rozado at Otago Polytechnic University in New Zealand administered 11 different popular political ori

Your phone is a hacker’s dream. This is what happens next

I spend a lot of time talking to people about privacy and security, and I’ve come to recognize a pervasive learned helplessness: “All my information is out there already,” or “That ship has sailed.” I believe this helplessness comes from a mistaken sense that the problem is too big to be solved. 

Many of us are painfully aware that our data is tracked and collected across our devices and apps. More

Agile SEO: Moving From Strategy To Action via @sejournal, @jes_scholz

Achieve SEO success with agile methods. Learn how to get resources and buy-in from executives without lengthy strategy documents.

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Ask An SEO: Should I Delete My GBP If I Am Selling My Product Nationwide?

Should you delete your GBP if you sell nationwide? Find out if your business is eligible for a Google Business Profile and if it's necessary.

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Google is making it easier to remove sexually explicit deepfakes from search

Google is joining the growing number of companies standing up to sexually explicit deepfakes.

The Alphabet division has made it easier for users to report nonconsensual imagery found in search results, including those made by artificial intelligence tools. While it was previously possible for users to request the removal of these images prior to the update, under the new policy whenever that request is granted, the company will scan for duplicates of the nonconsensual image and rem

How People Search: Understanding User Intent via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW

Get insights into the importance of understanding user intent for effective SEO. Learn how Google's algorithms prioritize relevant content.

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Investors are getting back together with Match Group, sending shares up double digits

Investors are getting back together with Match Group after the dating giant indicated the worst was behind it in its second quarter earnings. That confidence sent shares up more than 14% Wednesday afternoon. 

Match posted better-than-expected results for the second quarter. A key indicator was that Tinder, its star app, posted a smaller decline in paying users than in the previous quarter, with its 9.6 million paying users even being slightly ahead than Wall Street estimates.

Microsoft says cyberattack triggered Azure outage that impacted Outlook, Starbucks app, and more

A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday — from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks’ mobile app — was triggered by a distributed denial of service cyberattack, according to the tech giant.

Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform used

Search For Good Code

As PHP Architects, our relentless pursuit of high-quality code is always at the forefront of our work. We take pride in assuring our clients that the applications we build are not meant to confine them. At the same time, we value the opportunity to cultivate long-standing partnerships with our clients, many of whom we consider […]

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Pozoruhodná technologie 3D pletení přináší nové materiály

Představte si 3D tiskárnu, která podle digitálního modelu výsledný objektu netiskne, ale uplete ho. Takové je 3D pletení anglicky solid knitting. Můžete si třeba uplést nábytek, a když vás přestane bavit, rozpletete ho a upletete si nový. Tohle je podivuhodný hybrid starověké technologie a pokročilé digitální výroby. http://www.osel.cz/13591-pozoruhodna-technologie-3d-pleteni-prinasi-nove-materialy.html

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Google DeepMind launches 2B parameter Gemma 2 model


Google DeepMind announced today the release of the 2 billion (2B) parameter version of Gemma 2, the second generation of its Gemma AI models. First launched in February this year, Gemma is a family of lightweight, text-to-text open models designed for develo

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A much better way to read email newsletters

I love almost everything about email newsletters. From finance to gadgets to pop music, there are just so many stellar ones these days. Their very format—intimate, regularly scheduled, free of any temptation to please the Google algorithm rather than human readers—liberates many writers to do their best work. Then th

We analyzed nearly 2 million GoFundMe campaigns. This is what they don’t tell you

Long before the advent of reality television, the popular game show “Queen for a Day” thrilled American audiences by giving women who told heartbreaking tales of financial struggles a chance at winning expensive items that could help solve their problems.

Throughout its 1956-1964 run, each episode featured contestants describing a misfortune that had struck them or their families, such as polio, rheumatic fever or hunting accident

Google Search Algorithm Update Targeting Explicit Deepfakes via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google updates search algorithm to combat explicit deepfakes, improving content removal and adjusting rankings to protect users from non-consensual imagery.

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Automation plans for planes are ‘dangerous gamble,’ EU pilots warn


A push for single-pilot planes is a “dangerous gamble,” a leading aviation union has warned. The European Cockpit Association (ECA) sounded the alarm over plans to automate commercial flights. Aircraft makers want software to support a new single-pilot model.

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EU backs 15 startups to fight online misinformation with blockchain


The EU has awarded €1.8mn to 15 startups to help tackle online misinformation, fraud, and fake identities with blockchain-based technologies. The grant funding is part of the NGI TrustChain initiative, which focuses on building a more decentralised, trustwor

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Vimeo rolls out AI video translation for business customers

Businesses using Vimeo to produce videos for employees and customers will now be able to translate their content to dozens of different languages with the touch of a button.

A new AI feature will let Vimeo enterprise customers generate translated videos that even match the voice and tone of the original speakers. The company envisions the feature will be useful both for localizing corporate training and town hall–style updates

How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots

Josh Zhang, a staff site reliability engineer at Stack Overflow, tells Ryan and Eira how the Stack Exchange network defends against scraping bots. They also cover the emergence of human botnets, why DDoS attacks have spiked in the last couple of years, and the constant balancing act of protecting sites from attack without inhibiting legitimate users. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/30/how-stack-overflow-fends-off-scraping-bots/

Enterprise 2024.5: Encouraging and growing community contributions

The latest Stack Overflow for Teams release makes it easier to encourage and grow contributions to your community through the use of flexible bounties, more user search options, Slack thread summarization, and more. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/31/encouraging-and-growing-community-contributions/

TNW Podcast: IKEA’s Parag Parekh on digital ethics; €100B for AI research in Europe


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 and Andrii tal

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Building a nurturing ecosystem in deep tech: collaboration over proprietary innovation


The potential for deep tech to reshape industries from healthcare to climate science is immense. Yet, harnessing this potential requires more than just breakthroughs in isolated silos; it necessitates a nurturing ecosystem where collaboration and

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AI will never substitute teachers. This failed experiment shows why

Two things are certain about the emergence of new technologies. One is that it will be accompanied by a host of world-saving missions. The second is that one of those missions will be “solving” education. 

Indeed, the more advanced the technology, the more seductive the idea that it can educate us. But history has shown the opposite: the more advanced the technology, the further it substitutes genuine intellectual labor, the less we learn. 

AI is a much bigger t

Why TNT was always going to lose the NBA to Amazon

Last week, the NBA unveiled its new TV rights deal: an 11-year, $77 billion arrangement that will begin with the 2025-26 season. ESPN/ABC will remain the league’s premier broadcast partner, paying $2.6 billion per year for a package that includes the NBA Finals. NBC, which aired most of Michael Jordan’s ruthless eviscerations of the Utah Jazz before losing game rights in 2002, is back in

Help! What is the shelf life for posting wedding photos?

There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?

Fortunately, terminally online writers Delia Cai and St

Navigating A Cookieless Future: PPC Strategies For Privacy-First World

Navigate the changing digital advertising landscape with future PPC strategies for a privacy-first world. Stay one step ahead with targeted advertising solutions.

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Kde bude budoucí největší urychlovač?

V minulém a předminulém týdnu proběhla v Praze konference ICHEP 2024, která je zaměřena na současnost a budoucnost částicové fyziky. Jedním ze zásadních témat byla budoucnost velkých urychlovačů a následníka v současnosti největšího urychlovače LHC v laboratoři CERN. Budoucí cesta k těmto ještě výkonnějším klíčovým nástrojům pro poznání struktury hmoty a fundamentálních fyzikálních zákonů se řeší právě nyní. Rozhoduje se o tom, zda se postaví v Evropě nebo v Číně. http://www.osel.cz/13590-kde-bu

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Microsoft earnings show that investors only care about AI now

Microsoft shares were down more than 6% in after-hours trading Tuesday, despite quarterly earnings beating on the top and bottom lines. It was a lesson to tech companies that earnings mean less to investors today than the growth of artificial intelligence divisions.

The company reported earnings per share of $2.95 in its fourth fiscal quarter of 2024, compared to estimates of $2.93. Rev

Brutální síla stereotypů: Vzhled lidí se mění podle toho, jak se jmenují

Magie v tom sice není, ale jména lidí mají přesto ohromnou moc. Podle izraelských vědců dokážeme poměrně dobře přiřadit tvář neznámého dospělého člověka ke jménu. U dětí to ale nefunguje. Vypadá to, že sociální očekávání, která se pojí se jménem, mohutně tvarují vzhled dotyčného člověka. Jak jste na tom se jménem vy? http://www.osel.cz/13589-brutalni-sila-stereotypu-vzhled-lidi-se-meni-podle-toho-jak-se-jmenuji.html

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Google-Anthropic partnership raises AI competition fears in the UK


Google’s partnership with GenAI startup Anthropic is raising eyebrows in the UK as the trend of big tech giants backing young AI companies continues. The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday that it’s collecting information on whether the

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Microsoft calls for new laws on AI-generated deepfakes

Microsoft is calling on Congress to pass new laws that make it illegal to use AI-generated voices and images to defraud people, especially seniors and children.

The call to create a “deepfake fraud statute” was part of a 52-page white paper the tech giant released Tuesday, which laid out its vision about how governments should approach AI. The company proposes the government make it illegal to use voice- and image-generation tools to impersonate someone, whether a political candida

Meta agrees to $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over privacy violations

Meta agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with Texas on Tuesday over claims that the Facebook and Instagram-parent company illegally collected users’ facial and biometric data. 

It’s the largest privacy settlement by a U.S. state.

“This historic settlement demonstrates our commitment to standing up to the

Elon Musk’s plan to recover a SpaceX Starship rocket

SpaceX is in talks with U.S. and Australian officials to land and recover one of its Starship rockets off Australia’s coast, a possible first step toward a bigger presence for Elon Musk&#

Google Introduces New AI Tools For Performance Max Campaigns via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google introduces AI tools for Performance Max, enhancing reporting, creative capabilities, and brand safety measures for advertisers across multiple campaign types.

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Perplexity will soon start selling ads within AI search

Perplexity will soon begin to pay publishers when their content is used to form a specific type of the AI search engine’s answers. The business modell revolves around a revenue share from ad sales, an approach that marks a new chapter for the upstart AI company

Ads have long been a deeply integrated part of Google search results, but building ad inventory into new AI

Harris vs. Trump: 2 ways their AI policy differs

Two days after President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence last year, Vice President Kamala Harris brought the wonky document to a global AI summit, telling an international audience what set the U.S. apart in its approach to AI safe

Restaurant loyalty program Blackbird is launching payments and introducing ‘guest value scores’

There’s a new way to pay the bill at (some) restaurants. 

Blackbird, an app launched in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Ben Leventhal, is introducing a payments feature for restaurants, potentially reducing their processing costs and changing the way diners settle up after a meal.

“The check presenter as the way people pay, as the form factor of payments, it hasn’t changed materially in a very, very long time,” Leventhal says. “If you put it in the context of all the oth

OnlyFans stars leave the sexting to AI

OnlyFans is a porn-saturated website that offers its subscribers a chance to forge “authentic relationships” with content creators.

Former Barstool CEO Erika Ayers Badan wants to bring some edge to the lifestyle industry

Erika Ayers Badan, the new CEO of lifestyle brand Food52 and former CEO of Barstool Sports, is eager to borrow from the model that turned Barstool into an online cultural juggernaut. Whether it be cultivating a community of fans, or leaving the cameras running to capture viral moments, Erika shares how she plans to bring a little David Portnoy to the food industry.

This is an abridged transcript of an interview from

KOSA and COPPA 2.0 aimed at protecting kids online awaits a Senate vote

The U.S. Senate is expected to pass major online child safety reforms in a vote on Tuesday, although the legislation, which has drawn mixed reactions from the tech industry, faces an uncertain fate in the House of Representatives.

Two bills — the

UK startup automates shared ownership process to tackle housing crisis


London-based Stairpay has raised £750k in Pre-Seed funding to help first-time home buyers navigate the shared ownership process — and ultimately move to full ownership. For individuals facing challenges entering the (overcrowded) UK housing market, shared ow

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Tesla is recalling over 1.8 million EVs because of a crash hazard: What to know

Tesla is recalling over 1.8 million vehicles over a defect in which the cars could fail to alert the driver that its hood is not latched correctly, leading it to open unexpectedly and put the vehicle and its occupants at risk for crashes.

This recall is just the latest in a line of recalls Tesla has initiated in 2024, including recalls involving some of its vehicles’

Drones could revolutionise the construction industry, supporting a new UK housing boom


The UK’s new Labour government has pledged to build 1.5 million homes during its first term in office. To achieve this, it promises planning reform and the reintroduction of local housing targets. Yet little attention has been given to the role of new technologies. Dro

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Inside the University of Austin, America’s new ‘anti-woke’ college

At first glance, the University of Austin (UATX) looks more like a buzzy Silicon Valley outfit than an academic institution. Its entire campus is the renovated 30,000-square-foot third floor of downtown Austin’s historic, art deco–inspired Scarbrough Building. The space is full of exposed concrete, interior glass walls, minimalist tables, and tufted leather armchairs. On a balmy day in late January, about eight months before the nonprofit university’s first class of 100 students is set to ar

How To Get Ad Creative AI-Ready In Search Ads via @sejournal, @LisaRocksSEM

AI and PPC ads: the perfect combination for success. Learn how AI automation can boost your campaigns while marketers remain essential for creative input.

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Nonconsensual deepfake pornography is a bane on society — here’s how Europe can fight it


Just as the sun rises and sets, some things are inevitable. Consider technology. As soon as something new emerges, people invariably find a way to abuse it. In recent years, this mantle has fallen on artificial intelligence (AI) and one of its most troublin

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Navigační stavby a chrám Apollóna Aigléta na ostrově Argonautů

Fosilie Argonautů v místní Chóře. Majáček nad antickým přístavem. Posvátná cesta horským svahem od antického města k Apollónovu chrámu, místy s původní dlažbou. Chrám „na konci světa“, dávno přestavěný na klášter, naštěstí hodně zajímavě a s ponecháním opěrných zdí celého okrsku. Dál je už jen Dračí sluj a šílený útes Kalamos. To vše na ostrově Anafi. http://www.osel.cz/13588-navigacni-stavby-a-chram-apollona-aigleta-na-ostrove-argonautu.html

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U.S. border agents need a warrant to search cell phones, federal court rules

A federal district court in New York ruled last week that U.S. border agents must obtain a search warrant before going through travelers’ electronic devices at the border. 

U.S. border officials had long asserted that they have broad authority to conduct warrantless searches of travelers’ devices.

“As the court recognizes, warrantless searches of electronic devices at the border are an unjustified intrusion into travelers’ private expres

French fiber optic cables cut in latest Olympics attack

Several French fiber optic cables were cut overnight in what appears to be a coordinated sabotage effort, service providers and officials said. It’s the second attack on key French infrastructure in recent days, putting a spotlight on the country’s security as the nation hosts scores of athletes and fans for the Paris Olympic Games. 

The telecommunications operators were hit by the “major sabotage” around 2:15 a.m. local time, Nicolas Guillaume, the CEO of service provider Ne

Elon Musk shares parody ad with Kamala Harris’s voice cloned—renewing concerns of AI in politics

A video that uses an artificial intelligence voice-cloning tool to mimic the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of

Titanové srdce s maglevem vstoupilo do  klinických testů

Poptávka na transplantace srdce i dalších orgánů neustále narůstá. Vhodné orgány přitom neustále scházejí, což má dramatické důsledky. Společnost BiVACOR vyvinula plně mechanické titanové srdce s maglevem, v němž díky magnetické levitaci dochází k minimalizaci tření. Mechanická srdce by se mohla stát dočasným řešením pro pacienty, jejichž vyhlídky by jinak byly velmi neradostné. http://www.osel.cz/13587-titanove-srdce-s-maglevem-vstoupilo-do-klinickych-testu.html

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3 promising European startups in the race for next-generation chips


The race for semiconductor leadership is on — and European chip startups are rising to the challenge. Europe is already home to high-profile chip companies including ASML, NXP, Arm, and Infineon. However, it lags behind in manufacturing capacity. The EU is cu

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Internet cables cut as Paris Olympics cat-and-mouse continues


Several long-distance fibre-optic cables in France were “sabotaged” overnight, according to local police, causing widespread disruptions to internet services across the country.  The perpetrators remain at large, as the cat-and-mouse between po

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