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‘Who did this guy become?’ This creator quit his job and lost his TikTok audience

If you’ve built an audience around documenting your 9-to-5 online, what happens after you hand in your notice?

That’s the conundrum facing Connor Hubbard, aka “hubs.life,” a creator who amassed a huge following by sharing the mundane details of his corporate life as a senior analyst at a Fortune 500 company. In April 2024, The Guardian dubbed him “the most boring man on the internet,” with some of his most popular videos showing viewers his

Meta-owned WhatsApp could be banned in Russia. Here’s why

WhatsApp should prepare to leave the Russian market, a lawmaker who regulates the IT sector said on Friday, warning that the messaging app owned by Meta Platforms is very likely to be put on a list of

The simple pleasures of computing in 1995

This is an edition of Plugged In, a weekly newsletter by Fast Company global technology editor Harry McCracken. You can sign up to receive it each Friday and read all issues here.


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The AOL hacking tool that invented phishing and inspired a generation

If you were a teenager on America Online back then, there’s a good chance you got the email. Unlike a lot of the files floating around the early warez scene, the attachment wasn’t a pirated copy of Photoshop 3.0 or a beta of Windows 95. In fact, it was being given away by its creator, a hacker who called himself “Da Chronic.” When you launched it, the title screen depicted the giant disembodied head of AOL CEO Steve Case floating in

Google’s Top 5 SEO Tools via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Before you pay for another SEO tool, try these five free options from Google. Here’s why they work.

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How AI brain mapping can improve disease detection

Traditional brain scans only show part of the picture. They can’t fully capture how different regions of the brain communicate—an essential factor in detecting neurological diseases early. Dr. Rahul Biswas, a neurologist at the University of California–San Francisco, is working to change that with AI-powered tools t

Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era

Big changes are coming to the web in the days ahead. On July 25, the U.K.’s Online Safety Act will take effect, bringing sweeping changes to how users experience the internet. Within the next week, websites like Reddit and

AI and drones still need help from humans to find missing flood victims

For search and rescue, AI is not more accurate than humans, but it is far faster.

Recent successes in applying computer vision and machine learning to drone imagery for rapidly determining building and road damage after hurricanes or

How to do your job happier

Research scientist John Flournoy sits down with Ryan and Eira to dive into the recent research around developer experience, including the nuances of measuring productivity, the potential reasons for variability in developer performance, and the impacts of collaboration and competition on developer efficiency. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/18/how-to-do-your-job-happier/

Inflace bez inflačního pole: Jak zjednodušit Velký třesk?

Nový radikální model prvních okamžiků po Velkém třesku nepotřebuje k vysvětlení nafouknutí vesmíru kosmologickou inflací žádné inflační pole nebo částice. Podle nich za to mohly fluktuace kvantového vakua, které generovaly gravitační vlny. Model nabízí jasné předpovědi ověřitelné budoucími přístroji, tak se nechme překvapit. http://www.osel.cz/14163-inflace-bez-inflacniho-pole-jak-zjednodusit-velky-tresk.html

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‘She missed being outside on the pavement’: Cat owners are buying concrete slabs for their pets, thanks to TikTok

The new must-have pet accessory? A concrete slab.

On #CatTok, videos are racking up views as cat owners bring slabs into their homes, set them down, and watch their beloved pets sniff, lick, roll, and rub against their new favorite toys. Bonus points if they’re placed in a

The PHP Podcast: 2025.07.17

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Spec-driven Development with Kiro, JetBrains on Huggingface, Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, Automating your life with n8n, PHP Tek 2026 Website development using vibe coding, and more. Links from the show: Introducing Kiro – Kiro JetBrains (JetBrains) Verbs About Grokability – Snipe-IT Free open […]

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Perplexity Looks Beyond Search With Its AI Browser, Comet via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Perplexity’s new AI browser, Comet, is now live. Here’s how it fits into the company’s long-term vision for search and task automation.

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‘Superman’ has sparked a viral ‘hopecore’ movement among Gen Z fans

“Kindness, maybe that’s the real punk rock,” says James Gunn’s Superman, which hit theaters this past weekend. It’s a message that seems to have resonated deeply with Gen Z. One X user said: “I haven’t felt depressed even once” since watching it.

The film

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent reasons, researches, and run its own computer

OpenAI is rolling out a new AI agent within ChatGPT that can browse the web and conduct deep research.

An AI agent is similar to an AI app that can retain extensive information about a user and an automated workflow, reasoning its way toward task completion. This new ChatGPT agent is a hybrid.

Google’s John Mueller Clarifies How To Remove Pages From Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's John Mueller explains how to remove pages from Google Search, why sitelinks can't be controlled manually, and when to use the URL removal tool.

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The $8 billion Facebook trial is over: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta investors reach a settlement

Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware judge on Thursday.

The parties did not disclose details of

Nvidia’s power play: How Jensen Huang got Trump to rethink the China AI chip ban

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Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto tokens approved for trading

Holders of the digital tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, one of the crypto ventures of the family of Donald Trump, voted on Wednesday to make them tradable, paving the way for their wide sale and purchase — potentially boosting the value of the president’

ESA spaceplane project revives bankrupt firm’s hypersonic engine


A bankrupt company’s propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2031.  The proposed engine for the plane is based

Norwegian investment firm joins AI gold rush to the frozen north


Norwegian industrial investment firm Aker has announced plans to build an AI “factory” in the Arctic. It’s the latest company heading to the far north to tap into abundant green energy and natural cooling for power-hungry data centres.  The facility will be

Denmark taps Microsoft to build world’s most powerful quantum computer


Denmark is aiming to stake a bold claim in the global quantum race with plans to build the world’s most powerful quantum computer. Backed by €80mn from EIFO (Denmark’s export and investment fund) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the new initiative — dubbed

Teens are using AI companions—and some prefer them to people

The use of AI companions is no longer niche behavior but has become embedded in mainstream teenage life, according to a new report.

A nationally representative survey of 1,060 teens ages 13 to 17, conducted in April and May 2025 by Common Sense Media—a U.S.-based advocacy and

TikTok thinks a weighted vest will change your body. Here’s what the science says

If a regular hot girl walk is no longer cutting it, why not add a weighted vest to the mix? While not exactly new, weighted vests are making a strong comeback, especially on TikTok and Instagram, where wellness and fitness creators are touting the benefits of adding a 12-pound vest to your daily strolls.

“It’s my weighted vest era,” menopause expert Dr. Mary Claire Have

How Newgrounds accidentally became one of online culture’s defining sites

In 1995, a familiar experience sat at the center of many people’s first experiences with the dial-up internet: the chance to create something for themselves.

Along with the access to the World Wide Web, Telnet, and Usenet newsgroups, many users were given a few megabytes on their ISP’s FTP server to share whatever—recipes, pictures, creative projects, any weird thing that came to mind. Other people created personal sites using third-party providers such as GeoCities, AngelFire, and Tri

Roblox adds features for teens to talk less restrictedly to real-life friends

Roblox, the popular online gaming and social platform among kids and teens, is introducing new chat features for users ages 13 and up, allowing them to connect more directly with trusted real-life friends.

Previously, Roblox categorized all connections equally. Now, the platform is adding a new classification called “trusted connections,” intended

Slack expands AI features with enterprise search, translation, and smart summaries

A new set of AI tools is coming to Slack, designed to help users quickly find and utilize information from their chats—and even from data stored in connected business apps.

“It serves as the hub, or your work operating system, to be able to get work done, to make things more

Cambodia’s latest crackdown on cybercrime generates 1,000 arrests

Cambodia on Wednesday said that an order by Prime Minister Hun Manet for government bodies to crackdown on criminal cybercrime operations being run in the country had resulted in the arrest of more than 1,000 suspects so far this week.

Hun Manet issued t

Is It Time To Remove Focus From Average Position In GSC? via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW

Traditional ranking metrics are less reliable in today’s AI-driven SERPs. Understand why average position misleads and what to track instead.

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I asked the top AI models what they really think about each other, and boy, did they tell me

Sam Altman recently observed how different generations are interfacing with AI: “Older people use ChatGPT like Google. People in their 20s and 30s use it as a life advisor. [College students] use it like an operating system.” 

What we share across ages i

YouTube Shorts algorithm steers users away from political content, study finds

YouTube Shorts, the shortform platform from Google-owned video giant YouTube, has seen massive success since its launch in September 2020. Today, an estimated 1% of all waking human hours are spent watching Shorts, with videos amassing around 200 billion views daily.

But what users watch is ultimately shaped by YouTube’s algorithm—and a new study published in the Cornell U

Prokletí kontextu: Jediné slovo změnilo fantasy s monstry na rytířskou romanci

Nevinná záměna wolves (vlci) za elves (skřítci) na dlouhé desítky let mátla literární vědce, kteří ztráceli mládí a víru ve snaze pochopit, proč by středověký básník Chaucer v pasáži o milostných intrikách odkazoval na legendu o monstrech a obrech. Opět se potvrdilo, že pero je mocnější meče. http://www.osel.cz/14162-prokleti-kontextu-jedine-slovo-zmenilo-fantasy-s-monstry-na-rytirskou-romanci.html

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Europol-led operation hits pro-Russian cybercrime network

A coordinated international operation has hit the infrastructure of a pro-Russian cybercrime network linked to a string of denial of service attacks targeting Ukraine and its allies, the European Union’s police agency Europol announced Wednesday.

Codenamed Eastwood, the operation targeted the so-called 

Google Rolls Out Gemini 2.5 Pro & Deep Search For Paid Subscribers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search for paid subscribers, offering expanded support for reasoning, coding, and research tasks.

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4 tips to end unwanted subscriptions now that ‘Click-to-cancel’ is over

A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have made it easier for consumers to end unwanted subscriptions, has been blocked by a federal appeals court days before it was set to go into effect. But there are ways to end those subscriptions a

Exclusive: German startup takes on ‘solar-only’ rivals with energy-as-a-service model


German startup Enerkii has launched an energy-as-a-service model that aims to cut power bills in half for industrial customers — and decarbonise them in the process. The model uses an in-house operating system (OS) to calculate

Whisper emerges from stealth with ‘God Mode’ to tackle cybercrime


Dutch startup Whisper has emerged from stealth with a cybersecurity platform that promises to detect online threats before they strike. It plans to do this with what it calls a “God Mode” view of the internet. At the heart of Whisper’s approach is a massive, re

This cargo ship is turning its CO2 emissions into green cement


A giant cargo ship is trapping carbon from its exhaust and turning it into cement for use in onshore construction. The technology, developed by UK startup Seabound, is billed as the world’s first commercial carbon capture system for boats. It’s insta

Why I want the EU to pause the AI Act — as a climate advocate


“There is no stop the clock. There is no grace period. There is no pause.” So said Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the European Commission, in response to calls for a pause on the EU’s AI Act. These landmark rules on artificial intelligence will, then, be roll

How WeTransfer reignited fears about training AI on user data


Dutch file-sharing service WeTransfer is under fire after users spotted sweeping updates to its terms of service that appeared to let the company train AI models on their uploaded files. The company has now removed the controversial lan

Inside ‘Elvis Evolution’: AI and immersive tech bring the King’s life to the stage in London

Stage fright is not a term you’d associate with Elvis Presley, but in 1968 he was all shook up—with nerves. Ahead of his make-or-break “comeback special” after years floundering in Hollywood, the King had cold feet. He told the special’s director, Steve Binder, he was “terrified,” adding, “I don’t know if I can

Gmail’s new ‘Manage Subscriptions’ tool could change email marketing forever

Inbox fatigue is real. According to one analysis, the average person receives more than 120 emails a day, with some office-based staff receiving even more due to their work environment. From Substack newsletters to marketing emails from local stores (alongside standard business updates), it can be

This beloved retro gaming computer is making a comeback—and it’ll cost you $299

Tech nostalgia runs strong among Gen Z. The retro movement has made long-outdated devices desirable once more. When it comes to personal computer nostalgia, you’d be hard-pressed to find a PC more fondly remembered than the Commodore 64.

Now, the machine that served as the starter computer for many old-school gamers is

Why sleep-time compute is the next big leap in AI

For much of the AI era, intelligence has been on-demand: a user issues a prompt, and the model responds after reasoning through the request. But as AI systems grow more autonomous and expectations rise for real-time reasoning, low latency, and cost-efficiency, the definition of intelligence is shifting. We’re entering a new phase where AI is expected to stay ready for

Itálie vyvíjí railgun Herakles pro zbraňové systémy i odpaly na orbitu

Do prestižní skupiny zemí, které pracují na vývoji hypersonických railgunů pro vojenské i civilní aplikace se tak trochu překvapivě řadí Itálie. V dohledné době by měl vzniknout technologický demonstrátor Herakles, který by měl vystřelovat malé a střední projektily a výhledově také mini a mikro satelity. http://www.osel.cz/14161-italie-vyviji-railgun-herakles-pro-zbranove-systemy-i-odpaly-na-orbitu.html

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Windows 95’s look and feel are more impressive than ever

Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again.

Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, and so his office has become a kind of shrine to Windows history. Still, Windows 95 stands out, he says, because of how easy it made computing for everyone. Many of its foundational concepts, such as the Start menu and taskbar, are still core parts of Windows today.

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Současné výročí prvního testu jaderné zbraně Trinity je extrémně aktuální

Dnešní osmdesáté výročí testu Trinity, který zahájil éru existence naší civilizace ve stínu jaderných zbraní, je vysoce aktuální. Hrozby použití jaderných zbraní jsou běžnou součástí vyhlášení i velmi vysokých ruských politiků. Nejen Irán se snaží na jaderné zbraně dosáhnout. Stále důležitější je tak snaha o nešíření jaderných zbraní a vyloučení jejich použití. http://www.osel.cz/14160-soucasne-vyroci-prvniho-testu-jaderne-zbrane-trinity-je-extremne-aktualni.html

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Jack Dorsey’s new Sun Day app tells you exactly how long to tan before you burn

Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey is back with a new app that tracks sun exposure and vitamin D levels.

Sun Day uses location-based data to show the current UV index, the day’s high, and additional details like cloud cover, sunrise, and sunset times. Users can choose their skin type from six options and indicate their clothing, such as “light (shorts & t-shirt)”, then manually toggle when they’re in or out of the sun.

Based on this input, the app calculates how lo

The CEO of Ciena on how AI is fueling a global subsea cable boom

Under the ocean’s surface lies the true backbone of the internet: an estimated 870,000 miles of submarine cables that ferry over 95% of global intercontinental data traffic across every major ocean. These cables are critical infrastructure, carrying everything from our daily video calls to mul

AI therapy chatbots are unsafe and stigmatizing, a new Stanford study finds

AI chatbot therapists have made plenty of headlines in recent months—some positive, some not so much.

A new paper from researchers at Stanford University has evaluated five chatbots designed to offer accessible therapy, using criteria based on what makes a good human therapist. Nick Haber, an assistant professor