
The WordPress trademark applications for "Managed WordPress" and "Hosted WordPress" were denied by the USPTO in a Final Office Action.
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When technical debt blocks SEO progress, use this prioritization matrix and collaboration tactics to move critical fixes forward.
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Watching robots awkwardly flop around, cause robot body pile-ups on the soccer field, and accidentally lose their heads while taking part in a 1500-metre sprint at the first Robot Humanoid Games in China was not only entertaining, it was a reminder of jus

AI agents are now being embedded across core business functions globally. Soon, these agents could be scheduling our lives, making key decisions, and negotiating deals on our behalf. The prospect is exciting and ambitious, but it also begs the question: who’s

It may be a cliché, but coming up with gift ideas for the men in your life can be a challenge.
Whatever the occasion, or simply just because, a bunch of flowers is always a safe bet when giving gifts to the women in your life. It then begs the question: What is the male equivalent? A quick search throws up a few obvious, if

Navigate the 2025 AI SERP changes with strategies for local visibility, ensuring your business stands out in evolving search results.
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Google's John Mueller explained how Search Console handles sitemap uploads and said there's no guarantees about URL crawling timeline
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Velký strach čili epizoda běsnění venkovanů mezi 20. červencem a 5. srpnem 1789, významně přispěl k rozdmýchání revoluce ve Francii ohromené pádem Bastily. Hybatelem událostí byly „fake news“ o banditech poslaných šlechtici na venkov. Výzkum založený na modelech šíření epidemií přispěl k odhalení původu Velkého strachu. http://www.osel.cz/14222-grand-peur-epidemiologicke-modely-odhalily-sireni-vymyslu-velkeho-strachu.html

LinkedIn reports that professionals trust their networks more than AI or search engines for work advice, with spending shifting to creators and community content.
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Chipmaker Nvidia will release a quarterly report Wednesday that could provide a better sense of whether the stock market has been riding an overhyped artificial intelligence bubble or is being propelled by a technological boom that’s still gathering momentum.
Nvidia became the first publicly trad

Thrifting is still in fashion for fall.
That’s according to Pinterest‘s annual fall 2025 trend report. The company surveyed users from January 2025 until March 2025 and found secondhand shopping dominating everything from fashion to home decor as we head into the new season.
Gen Z are driving the trend, now accounting for more than half of Pinterest users. With

Google launches Merchant loyalty offerings, bringing member pricing and shipping into Shopping ads and free listings while adding a loyalty goal in Google Ads.
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SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday night and completed the first-ever deployment of a test payload—eight dummy satellites—into space. After just over an hour coasting through space,

Many of us indulge in a day of “bed-rotting” every now and then. For younger generations, it’s becoming less of a guilty pleasure and more of a habit.
According to a recent Morning Consult report, young people are increasingly spending time in bed scrolling social media or streaming shows instead of engaging in more “energetic” or “social” activities. Roughly half of Gen Z (49%) said they bed rot “of

Timed with back-to-school season, Instagram has launched a new feature just for students.
The social media platform announced “Schools” on Tuesday, August 26. Students should now see an option to “Add your school” directly on their profile if they so wish. After verifying their enrollment through the student verification platform UniDays, they will then have the

AI tools are disrupting creative work of all kinds, and Runway AI is a pioneer in the space—making major waves in Hollywood through partnerships with the likes of Disney and Netflix. Runway’s cofounder & CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela dissects the company’s breakneck growth, the risks and responsibilities of AI tool makers, and how AI is redefining both business expectation

Have you ever read an article or social post and thought, “This is terrible! I bet it was written by AI!”?
Most people know bad AI writing when they see it. But unless you’re a closeted copy editor, it’s surprisingly hard to put your finger on exactly why

How many apps do you use to chat with other people? I don’t mean tweeting out into the ether. I mean actually interacting with a fellow human in a one-to-one way.
For most people, the number is one or two. And it’s probably fewer than five. In the U.S., you likely keep in touch with friends and family through Apple or Google Messages, and touch base with colleagues o

Rankings don’t guarantee traffic anymore. Here’s how to optimize for AI visibility and brand mentions in a zero-click world.
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In the late 1970s, a Princeton undergraduate named John Aristotle Phillips made headlines by designing an atomic bomb using only publicly available sources for his junior year research project. His goal wasn’t to build a weapon but to prove a point: that the distinction between “classified” and “unclassified” nuclear knowledge was dangerously porous.
The physicist Freeman Dyson agreed to be his adviser while explicitly stipulating that he would not provide classified information. P

Having $1 billion isn’t enough these days. To be seen among the richest of the rich, you now need your own private sanctuary.
For some, that means a sprawling compound. Increasingly, though, members of tech’s 1% are incorporating their own towns, giving them the power to set rules, issue building permits, and even influence education. Some of these modern-day land grabs are already functioning; others are still in the works.
Either way, the billionaire class is busy creat

Many see Perplexity's Discover pages as programmatic SEO. What they reveal is something more ambitious, a swing for the fences.
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Slow growth, wasted budgets, missed AI opportunities: symptoms of the digital performance gap. Here’s how leaders can fix it.
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A decade ago, we argued about which app would win your attention. Now the fight is over who mediates it. AI assistants are becoming the front door to everything we do with computers: search, shopping, media, work. Whoever wins that interface will decide what you see first, which option you consider “default,” much of the narrative surrounding it, and how much of your

Ryan welcomes Darko Mesaroš, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS and all around computer history buff, to chat about history of software development improvements and how they made developers made more productive. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/27/from-punch-cards-to-prompts-a-history-of-how-software-got-better/

Fantasy football draft season is here—and it’s no longer a boys’ club.
Of the 62.5 million people playing fantasy sports in the U.S. and Canada, 35% are women, according to the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association’s 2023 survey. The trend is only growing: Women 35 and older visiting the Yahoo Fantasy app—the top-rated app for fantasy football—grew 61% year over year as of last month.
For the uninitiated, fantas

Google says it wants to show more links in AI Mode, rolling out embedded carousels, smarter inline links, and expanding Web Guide.
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Private equity deals hit an all-time high in 2021, peaking at a total value of more than $1tn, with an average deal size exceeding $1bn for the first time. Founders were media darlings, valuations soared, and investors raced to get a piece of the action. By 2

Picture this: You’re three months into a new Laravel project, the kind where deadlines loom large and stakeholders change their minds faster than you can push commits. Your frontend developer – let’s call her Sarah – walks over to your desk with that familiar look of barely contained frustration. “What exactly does the Update User […]

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in federal court on Monday, alleging they conspired to freeze out competition in both the smartphone and AI chatbot markets. But xAI’s lawyers face an uphill battle in proving that Apple’s defaulting to ChatGPT on

It’s been a long time coming: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are finally tying the knot.
In a joint Instagram post captioned “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” the couple announced their engagement, set to the tune of Swift’s song “So High School.” The post, which features five photos of the couple in a rose garden, has amassed almost 4 million likes in its first 30 minutes.
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Apple will host its annual fall event on September 9, according to an invite on Tuesday, where the company is expected to unveil new iPhones, watches and other devices.
The event will be held at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California and s

Soustava radioteleskopů ALMA náhodou narazila v blízké aktivní galaxii NGC 4945 na zcela záhadný objekt, který vědci pokřtili jako Punctum. Zatím víme, že nemá žádný optický nebo rentgenový protějšek, je velmi kompaktní a nejspíš má vysoce strukturované magnetické pole. Uvidíme, co na to Webb.
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Elon Musk on Monday targeted Apple and OpenAI in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT maker are teaming up to thwart competition in artificial intelligence.
The 61-page complaint filed in Texas federal court follows through on a threat that

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) long-running case against Google, in which Judge Amit Mehta ruled in April that Google monopolized the digital advertising market on the open web (and reaffirmed that ruling earlier this month), is expected to reach another milestone imminently. A final ruling on remedies could come within days or weeks.
The two sides remain far apar

Meta is setting up a new California-focused political action committee (PAC) to back state-level candidates favoring lighter regulation of technology, particularly artificial intelligence, Politico reported on Tuesday.
The group, named Mobilizing Eco

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The U.S. Army is turning to sponcon to reach Gen Z.
Steven Kelly, who has more than 1.3 million Instagram followers, ordinarily posts fitness and lifestyle content, peppered with an array of shirtless photos and sponsored posts for energy drinks and supplement brands.
But a

EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.
A study of how three popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to queries about suicide found that they generally avoid answering questions that pose the

Google released the August spam update, impacting search results worldwide. The rollout may take a few weeks to complete.
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Ad hijacking is a serious issue for online advertisers. Find out how to detect and combat ad hijacking effectively.
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’ latest season of her reality show, With Love, Meghan, drops today on Netflix. In line with the streamer’s strategy for its flagship programs, all eight episodes are available to binge immediately.
It’s a strategy that serves journalists well, offering plenty of controversial moments to highlight from a celebrity whose ties to the U.K. royal family continue to generate headlines. But it al

For understandable reasons, most technology coverage tends to focus more on the physical or visual elements of new devices than their audio signature. It’s much easier to show and tell audiences how great a new screen is or how thin a new phone is than to explain the experience they’ll get from its sound

The United States’ hourly demand for electricity broke two records last month, reaching its highest-ever level—759,190 megawatts—on July 29. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects demand to keep rising, especially in states with expanding data center and manufacturing industries, such as Texas and Virginia.
Most of this demand will continue to be met by nonrenewable sources, primarily fossil fuels, whi

A typical physician’s job is much more than just seeing patients. In fact, most doctors spend hours every week outside of clinic hours catching up on typing notes and getting visits and treatments cleared with insurance providers.
As a practicing cardiologist, Shiv Rao had gotten used to doing this work late at night. That’s why he launched Abridge, an

The cultural and emotional dynamics shaping how consumers trust AI marketing, and the strategies brands can use to earn it.
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Fresh data shows ChatGPT adoption accelerating while Google stalls, with major implications for user behavior and downstream SEO metrics.
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Perplexity’s new subscription plan pays publishers for webpage visits, AI search citations, and agent actions.
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Agentic AI is being heralded as the future of the generative AI revolution by leaders in the field. From ChatGPT’s integration of agentic features to the rise of Comet (the agent-based web browser from Perplexity) and Chinese-born Manus, the trend of handing more control to AI to

Vulnerability in Perplexity's Comet AI browser enables attackers to access open browser tabs and gain access to sensitive data
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An Illinois man keeps buying and returning 110-pound anvils on Amazon—until “someone does something about it,” he says.
The creator, who goes by Johnbo Stockwell on TikTok, went viral back in June after revealing he’d spent the past eight months repeatedly buying and returning anvils—each one costing just under $230 and weighing 110 pounds.
Because he is an Am

Digital hoarders, unite! I have a game on my PC that I haven’t played in months, and it’s taking up more than 100 GB of disk space. There, I said it.
This is a scenario most of us find ourselves in at one point or another. You’re happily using your computer, downloading things, saving files, installing apps, and then . . . a little red bar appears in File Explorer and your PC starts to feel as sluggish as a sloth in quicksand.
Don’t worry. Windows 11 has some

Rich Harris, creator of Svelte and software engineer at Vercel, joins Ryan on the show to dive into the evolution and future of web frameworks. They discuss the birth and growth of Svelte during the rise of mobile, the challenges of building robust and efficient web applications, how companies can back more open-source community projects, and the dirty little secret about asynchronous operations and component frameworks. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/26/svelte-was-built-on-slinging-code-for

Vibe coding is redefining who can build software. By enabling code generation through natural language prompts, it’s quickly gained traction among startups and indie developers. But the biggest opportunity lies ahead: the enterprise. The rapid rise of Lovab

Proč stavět větrné turbíny na zemi, když je možné je vypustit do vzduchu? Společnost SAWES Energy Technology Company vyrábí létající větrné turbíny, což jsou heliové vzducholodě ss mikrogenerátory elektřiny. Brzy vzlétne jejich nejnovější model S1500, který bude ve výšce 1 500 metrů nad zemí těžit rekordních 1 MW. http://www.osel.cz/14219-brzy-na-start-cinsti-sawes-vyvinuli-letajici-vetrnou-turbinu-o-vykonu-1-mw.html

For months, a group of Hood County, Texas, residents has been pushing to create a new town of their own. The effort began in March, when citizens living in a 2-square-mile unincorporated stretch of the county, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, started gathering signatures to form what they hope will become the city of Mitchell Bend.
By April, organizers believed they had enough support and submitted their petition to county officials. After it was verified, Hood County Judge

President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to

Ryan is joined by Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and co-founder of Baseten, to explore the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure and inference workloads, how the shift from traditional machine learning models to large-scale neural networks has made GPU usage challenging, and the potential future of hardware-specific optimizations in AI.

The most effective learning doesn’t happen in a classroom. It happens during work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/25/making-continuous-learning-work-at-work/

Last year, Transport for London tested AI-powered CCTV at Willesden Green tube station, running feeds through automated systems from October 2022 to September 2023. According to Wired, the goal was to detect fare evasion, aggressive gestures, and safety risks. Instead, the

Learn how AI is transforming B2B go-to-market strategies into scalable, intelligent systems that drive revenue, enable cross-team alignment, and adapt to buyer behavior.
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Want better PPC results? It starts with asking better questions. Use this five-phase system to align your media strategy with client revenue goals.
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Although AI is changing the media, how much it’s changing journalism is unclear. Most editorial policies forbid using AI to help write


Every company wants to have an AI strategy: A bold vision to do more with less. But there’s a growing problem—one that few executives want to say out loud. AI initiatives aren’t delivering the returns they were hoping for.
In fact, many leaders now say they haven’t seen meaningful returns at all.

A Cloudflare-backed non-profit is offering free domain names to help support a free and open Internet
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Na americké Cornell University postavili „mikrovlnný mozek,“ křemíkový čip s plně integrovanou mikrovlnnou neurální sítí. Je to zázrak analogových výpočtů, tak malý a s tak malou spotřebou, že by se mohl stát AI mozkem chytrých hodinek nebo chytrých telefonů. Také bleskurychle analyzuje bezdrátovou komunikaci. http://www.osel.cz/14218-prvni-mikrovlnna-neuralni-sit-je-vytecna-ve-zpracovani-bezdratovych-dat.html