
TikTok is shutting down TikTok Notes—wait, you didn’t even know it existed? Well, that explains a lot.
TikTok Notes, the platform’s short-lived attempt to take on Instagram (just as Instagram Reels was built to mimic TikTok), is officially being retired. Launched in limited markets like Canada, Australia, and Vietnam last year, the photo-sharing app let users post images with captions—simple enough, but apparently not compelling enough.
Users are now being notified that T

Influencing has a major pay gap, and it’s not what you might expect.
A new report from Collabstr, based on over 15,000 influencer collaborations using first-party data, reveals a surprising disparity: male creators earn 40% more per collaboration than female creators—$291 compared to $208 on average.
This gap persists despite women making up the majority of the content creator space. In 2024, 72% of inf

Google DeepMind’s reported clampdown on sharing research will stifle AI innovation, warns the CEO of Iris.ai, one of Europe’s leading startups in the space. The UK-based lab has tightened its rules on releasing AI studies, the Financial Times reported this week

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Tech leaders often brand themselves as “disruptors”—and few fit that label more snugly than Elon Musk. In the three months since joining Donald Trump in the White House following Trump’s election, Musk has certainly disrupted Washington. Now, reports suggest Musk is preparing to exit his government post, having led the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and overseen sweepi

Data has always been key to LLM success, but it's becoming key to inference-time performance as well. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/03/from-training-to-inference-the-new-role-of-web-data-in-llms/

As the weekend deadline for TikTok to find a buyer approaches, bidders for the short-video social media site are piling up.
Amazon and, separately, a consortium led by

Plan smarter, publish better. A structured content plan keeps your marketing focused and efficient. Download the free template to get started.
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At Visa’s ETA Transact event on April 3, the payments giant introduced three new products designed to simplify and secure payment acceptance. These innovations—Authorize.net 2.0, Unified Checkout, and the ARIC Risk Hub—all aim to enhance efficiency and fraud protection for businesses navigating an increasingly complex commercial landscape.
By integrating the three new tools, Visa seeks to service businesses end to end—from integrating with existing platforms to accepting more payme

Micro conversions can fuel PPC success, but only if used correctly. Learn how to track, report, and optimize them for better campaign performance.
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For those tired of waiting in line to buy a new smartphone or anxiously refreshing a delivery tracking site to make sure a new phone arrives intact, Verizon’s Straight Talk Wireless brand is offering another option: phones from a vending machine.
Straight Talk, a Verizon prepaid brand exclusively available at Walmart, has launched vending machines that dispense packaged iPhone and Android devices, similar to the tech vending machine

Think your website is ranking on quality alone? Google’s E-E-A-T framework says otherwise. See why trust, authority, and expertise matter more than ever.
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Automattic terminates 16% of the workforce on top of the 8% that resigned six months ago
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Rumors of a Tumblr comeback have been bubbling for a couple of years—think a pair of Doc Martens here, a splash of pastel hair dye there. Now, Gen Z is embracing the platform as a refuge from an internet saturated with influencers and algorithm fatigue.
Launched in 2007, just ahead of Instagram’s 2010 debut, Tumblr, with its blog-style format, encouraged users to craft personal aesthetics and immerse themselves in niche communities—where American Apparel tennis skirts, oversize fla

You can’t talk about the manosphere without mentioning Andrew Tate. The British-American influencer and former professional kickboxer built his platform by promoting misogynistic ideas—claiming women should be subservient to men, suggesting rape victims should “bear responsibility” for their assaults, and openly describing acts of domestic violence.
The manosphere, which birthed Tate and others like him, is a network of


An artificial intelligence watchdog is accusing OpenAI of training its default ChatGPT model on copyrighted book content without permission.
In a new paper published this week, the AI Disclosures Project alleges that OpenAI likely trained its GPT-4o model using nonpu

Google DeepMind's AGI roadmap reveals how AI tools will evolve by 2030. Here's what it might mean for SEO, content creation, and advertising.
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DoorDash co-founder shares three insights that can be used to build a stronger digital brand and improve search visibility
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As the deadline to strike a deal over TikTok approaches this week, President Donald Trump has signaled that he is confident his administration can broker an agreement with ByteDance, the social media app’s China-based parent company.
Speaking with reporters on Air Force One late Sunday, Trump said that “there’s tremendous i

Top minds at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.
The plans for the Future Circular Collider—a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva—published late Monday put the finishi

Every entrepreneur has to overcome obstacles, but few have faced the challenges of Oleksandr Kosovan. As the founder and CEO of Ukrainian scaleup MacPaw, Kosovan runs his business in a country under invasion. The company has even been hit by missile barrages. As

A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is now working in the U.S. Justice Department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters.
Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer who has worked at both

A trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in James Cameron’s galactically successful series, starts by delivering on the title’s promise. Rivers of lava cascade through the forests of Pandora, reducing it to charred rubble. Soon, the score swells to epic proportions as the hulking, Smurf-colored Na’vi survey their ruined territory and swear vengeance on an unseen enemy. Released back in January, "> this trailer already

Efficiently solving a complex scheduling problem using simulated annealing. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/02/not-all-ai-is-generative-efficient-scheduling-with-mathematics/

Sediment na dně Baltského moře se stal strojem času pro výzkum planktonu z dávných časů. Nejde přitom o fosilie, ale o probuzené rozsivky Skeletonema marinoi, které strávily ve tmě a bez přístupu kyslíku tisíce let. Taková je ekologie vzkříšení, moderní věda okořeněná sympatickou nekromancií. http://www.osel.cz/13980-vedci-vzkrisili-rozsivku-po-7-tisicich-let-v-sedimentu-na-dne-baltu.html

…aneb Kulaté výročí obřího pterosaura http://www.osel.cz/13979-pulstoleti-s-kvecalkoatlem.html

It’s been a wild few years for Snowflake, from a record-breaking IPO to a plummeting stock price to a data-breach scandal. Sridhar Ramaswamy took over in the heat of the turmoil and helped steady the ship, in part by betting big on AI. Ramaswamy shares lessons from the company’s turnaround including insights behind high profile partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic, how Snowflake embraced China’s Deepseek early, and why Ramaswamy calls Snowflake the most consequential AI-d

Audiences are used to Hollywood mining pre-existing material for movies. For over two decades now, the industry’s go-to source for blockbusters has been comic books. And increasingly, it’s been video games. But occasionally, Hollywood turns to

Streamline your work by using the AI prompts provided to quickly find migration issues and ensure all aspects are addressed before launch.
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Why are AI chatbots so intelligent—capable of understanding complex ideas, crafting surprisingly good short stories, and intuitively grasping what users mean? The truth is, we don’t fully know. Large language models “think” in ways that don’t look very human. Their outputs are formed from billions of mathematical signals bouncing through layers of neural networks powered by computers of unprecedented power and speed, and most of that activity remains invisible or inscrutable to AI researcher

The web is being swamped by AI slop—but the swamp is creeping closer to home. Your email inboxes, phone SMS apps, instant messaging, and social media services are all being overtaken by inauthentic content.
From AI-generated footage of Hollywood actor Brad Pitt that conned a French woman


DoorDash co-founder shares three insights that can be used to build a stronger digital brand and improve search visibility
The post DoorDash Co-Founder: Customer Obsessed, Not Competitor Focused appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google's Danny Sullivan explained what to expect, from an SEO perspective, when a site starts publishing on a completely new topic
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-what-happens-when-websites-add-new-topics/5434

Google's Danny Sullivan used the metaphor of a mini-site to illustrate how Google might split the topical site reputation within a site
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Learn the impact of AI on social media strategies, helping brands create captivating and engaging content effortlessly.
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/generative-ai-social-media-redefining-content-creation/5

YouTube's new AI-powered hook generator helps creators combat viewer drop-off with three hook types. Learn how this tool can assist video retention and channel growth.
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/youtube-unveils-new-ai-powered-

Think you’ve got game? Time to put it to the test with Tinder’s latest launch in collaboration with OpenAI.
On Tuesday, Tinder rolled out The Game Game—a new experience designed to help users practice their flirting skills by chatting with an AI voice, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model. Players are dealt a stack of virtual cards, each introducing a different AI persona and a hilariously exaggerated rom-com

The old Tesla can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, ‘cause she’s dead.
Over the past few days, a new trend has emerged on TikTok: people are posting their Tesla trade-ins accompanied by the hashtag “ByeTesla” and soundtracked to Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do.”
In the videos, the Tesla driver backs out of a driveway as the l

56-qubitový kvantový počítač Quantinuum System Model H2 uspěl v generování ryze náhodných čísel, což pak následně ověřil s vypětím všech sil klasický superpočítač. Je to významný průlom, který vede k zajímavému praktickému uplatnění kvantových počítačů. Opravdu náhodná čísla jsou (mnohem) cennější než zlato. http://www.osel.cz/13978-kvantova-kouzla-pocitac-s-56-qubity-generuje-doopravdy-nahodna-cisla.html

One of Europe’s leading climate tech VC firms has called for a “fundamental redesign” of traditional computing methods amid surging energy consumption from AI applications. The Berlin-based World Fund warns that simply transitioning data centres to renewable po

Gone are the days when a bean bag and free kombucha made your office cool. Today’s top tech talent wants something far more valuable: their health. That’s the view of Lucien Engelen, a renowned healthcare innovation expert, who believes workplace wellbeing is abo

Despite a ">triumphant world premiere at Cannes last May, the politically unsparing Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice was stuck in cinematic limbo. Distributors had snapped up rights in Canada, Japan, Germany, and several other countries, but after a cease-and-desist letter from Trump h

Countless hours, days—perhaps even weeks—of my life have been spent creating Sims characters, building them houses, marrying them off, and making babies. Now, there’s a new life-simulation game on the block hoping to expand beyond the American market.
inZOI debuted on March 28 at $40 and quickly climbed to the top of Steam’s most wishlisted and bestseller charts. The game’s appeal lies in its hyper-detailed character customization, free expansions, and immersive, rea

A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles.
Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX&

When your pages compete, your rankings suffer. Learn to identify, resolve, and automate content cannibalization detection for lasting SEO success.
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Should you open an agency as a beginner in SEO? Find out how it affects your competitiveness and client attraction.
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JavaScript-loaded images can be indexed, Google's Martin Splitt confirms. Learn common indexing issues and best practices to ensure your JS images appear in search.
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Spatial intelligence is an emerging approach to deploying AI in the physical world. By combining mapping data with artificial intelligence, it aims to deliver “smart data” tied to specific locations—even indoors and across multiple stories. With this technology, maps become more intelligent, evolving into 3D representations that offer contextual information not just about places, but also about the people and activities within them. While Google Maps and other platforms have long mapped stre

Ukraine’s war with Russia—sparked by Russia’s invasion in the spring of 2022—is now entering its fourth year. So too is Sine.Engineering, a company born amid the conflict. CEO Andriy Chulyk founded the company in April 2022, pivoting from running a standing-desk business in the Lviv region to supporting his country’s defense efforts through various drone technologies and c

After yet another round of protests disrupted hundreds of Tesla dealerships over the weekend, Elon Musk, the carmaker’s CEO/ ">presidential sidekick, fumed on the social media platform he owns.

Marketing success starts with listening. Learn how to turn customer interactions into powerful insights that improve lead quality and increase conversions in this ebook.
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Google AIO trends are making it increasingly important to keep older content relevant, fresh, and indexed
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Google's Danny Sullivan says it doesn't matter how the content is scaled: "It's going to be an issue."
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Když se k nám blíží někdo v bílém plášti s injekční stříkačkou, náš mozek ví, co bude následovat. Nemusí ale jít ani o tak vypjaté situace. Muzikantům mozek předpovídá čas, kdy mají vyloudit ten správný tón, či ťuknout paličkou do bubnu. Lovcům určuje kam vystřelit, aby se broky letící rychlostí 300m za sekundu potkaly s kachnou vzdalující se padesáti kilometry za hodinu. Kde je sídlo toho, co nám našeptává co se stane když na semaforu zabliká oranžová? http://www.osel.cz/13977-jak-nas-mozek-pre

Two interviews for the price of one, direct from HumanX 2025! Ryan sits down with Raj Patel, AI transformation lead at Holistic AI, and then chats with Audioshake cofounder and CEO Jessica Powell. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/01/boots-on-the-ground-holistic-ai-and-audioshake-at-humanx/

JavaScript SEO problems can hurt search rankings, warns Google's Martin Splitt. Learn how error pages, geolocation requests, and rendered HTML issues impact indexing.
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This month’s feature examines ‘AI with PHP—Running pre-trained models with TransformersPHP’ by Vinicius Dias. AI’s popularity is at an all-time high and rising. New advancements have made it easier for people to access AI’s services; sometimes, even completing everyday tasks without realizing AI is at work behind the scenes. For developers, the use of libraries, […]

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time.

New research finds AI systems still struggle with facts despite improvements; researchers doubt quick fixes for accuracy problems.
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Když s generativními inteligencemi, jako je ChatGPT, konverzujete o nehodách, násilí nebo třeba válce, rozesmutní je to. Pak se stávají úzkostným přítelem na telefonu, což není úplně dobré, zvlášť pro inteligence využívané při práci s pacienty. Je už jenom otázkou času, kdy vznikne psychologie umělých inteligencí. http://www.osel.cz/13976-psychologie-ai-generativni-inteligence-je-mozne-traumatizovat-valkou-ci-nasilim.html

Amazon on Monday launched its latest AI model, designed to take over a user’s web browser and perform simple tasks. The move places the e-commerce giant in more direct competition with artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, which are also developing AI “agents.”
The model, called Nova Act, is currently available as a “research preview” for developers, meaning it’s not yet open to the general public. It can complete tasks such as b

As a potential TikTok ban looms in the United States (again), Substack is making (another) play for video creators to join its platform.
Back in January, Substack CEO Chris Best wrote on his personal account that the company was “going to rescue the smart people from TikTok!” It seems he’s making good on that prom

Google's John Mueller cited the newly updated Quality Rater Guidelines when affirming that filler content is problematic for page quality
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