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The case for OpenAI becoming a B Corp

The cofounder of B Lab, the global nonprofit that came up with the B Corp certification for accountable, sustainable, and transparent companies, believes that OpenAI should sign up to its system and dedicate itself to becoming more responsible.

Andrew Kassoy tells Fast Company that as the leader of the AI revolution, the makers

A brief summary of language model finetuning

Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purposes, and what we know about how they work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/31/a-brief-summary-of-language-model-finetuning/

Research roadmap update: November 2024

An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/04/research-roadmap-update-november-2024/

Making Social Media & SEO Work Together via @sejournal, @krisjonescom

Explore the synergy between social media and SEO. Discover how social media can significantly boost your online visibility and improve your search engine rankings.

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/making-social-media-seo-work-together/527280/

Ideogram is a great AI tool for making quick—and free—visuals

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.

Even if you can’t draw or take a decent photo, you can now illustrate anything. Services like UnsplashPexels, and free 

The biggest employee turnover is about to happen. Why it’s a matter of national security

As the United States gears up for another Presidential election, government agencies face a daunting challenge that extends far beyond the ballot box. While elections signify the democratic process at work, they also represent one of the largest predictable instances of high employee turnover in the public sector. This mass transition of power and personnel creates a perfect storm for potential data breaches, threatening the int

How To Optimize Your Ecommerce Site For Holiday Shoppers via @sejournal, @wburton27

Don't miss out on holiday sales. Optimize your ecommerce site for peak shopping periods and attract shoppers during the festive season.

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Get more from Google with these 5 search superpowers

Google is an incredibly powerful search engine, but many users aren’t tapping into its full potential. And with nearly limitless results on any given topic, effective searching is about being specific and using the right tools for the job.

Here are several tricks to help you refine your searches and find exactly what you’re looking for more efficiently.

AI could transform visual effects in film — but the emerging field is mired in copyright issues


While many people in the creative industries are worrying that AI is about to steal their jobs, Oscar-winning film director James Cameron is embracing the technology. Cameron is famous for making the Avatar and Terminator movies, as well as Titanic. Now he has jo

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Polsko sází v obraně proti dronům na futuristický protiletecký kanón ráže 35 mm

Polská společnost PIT-Radwar vyvíjí vysoce mobilní protiletecký systém SA-35 s automatickým kanónem ráže 35 mm, který zajišťuje obranu krátkého dosahu proti letounům, vrtulníkům, střelám s plochou dráhou letu a rozmanitým dronům. Velmi účinný je i proti malým a levným sebevražedným dronům, s nimiž mají konvenční protiletecké systémy velký problém. http://www.osel.cz/13767-polsko-sazi-v-obrane-proti-dronum-na-futuristicky-protiletecky-kanon-raze-35-mm.html

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How to spot ‘cheapfakes’ online, according to 2 misinformation experts

Someone tracking the conflict raging in the Middle East could have seen the following two videos on social media. The first shows a little boy hovering over his father’s dead body, whimpering in Arabic, “Don’t leave me.” The second purports to show a pregnant woman with her abdomen slashed open and claims to document the testimony of a paramedic who handled victims’ bodies after Hamas’s attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.

Even though these videos come from different sides of the I

This exceptional free speed tool will tell you if your ISP is lying

Are you getting the internet speed you’re paying for?

It’s an important question. After all, your internet service provider offered you a plan with a high-sounding download speed number, and you’re probably paying more money every single month to get that instead of the cheaper, slower option.

But are you actually getting the speed you were promised? There’s only one way to find out.

Unearth all sorts of useful tech treasures with my free

Chimérické živočišné buňky mohou tvořit solární tkáně, orgány nebo třeba maso

Japonští buněční inženýři si zkusili frankensteinovský experiment a vytvořili fotosyntetického křečka, prozatím na úrovni buněčné kultury. Smíchali buňky křečka s chloroplasty ruduchy a vytvořili buněčné chiméry. Žily a rostly, lépe než obyčejné buňky, což bude voda na mlýn tvůrcům syntetických buněk a tkání. http://www.osel.cz/13766-chimericke-zivocisne-bunky-mohou-tvorit-solarni-tkane-organy-nebo-treba-maso.html

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Meredith Whittaker: Signal’s job is ‘to preserve private communications’

Our digital activity, including our most private interactions and conversation, is constantly monitored and tracked. For Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, this is a break from human communication throughout history, and is not needed or wanted. Recorded live at the 2024 Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco, Whittaker tackl

Start using Apple Intelligence with these 6 new productivity hacks

Apple launched Apple Intelligence this week, the company’s official foray into the artificial intelligence space. The platform is designed around privacy and will roll out in stages, with each stage introducing additional AI tools. The first stage

Primátí nekonečna: Šimpanzům by na Shakespeara nestačilo ani 7 googolů let

Nekonečna jsou sexy. Podle Věty o nekonečné opici by blíže neurčený počet primátů na psacích strojích za nekonečně dlouhou dobu náhodně naťukal „skoro jistě“ každý možný text nekonečně mnohokrát. V konečných dimenzích by to bylo zoufale slabé, pokud by to ovšem nebyl primát vyzbrojený selekčním algoritmem, který projede pravděpodobností jako nůž máslem. http://www.osel.cz/13765-primati-nekonecna-simpanzum-by-na-shakespeara-nestacilo-ani-7-googolu-let.html

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Is the new dating app Cheers the future of dating?

A new dating app called Cheers is designed to allow your friends to set you up on dates with their friends.

Launched last month as a New York City-focused, invite-only platform and focused for now on South Asian people, Cheers is in some ways not unlike other dating apps: It asks users to say where they went to school, if they drink, and so on.

What makes Cheers unique is that you can add your contacts to your profile section. This is where it starts to take the shape of

Amazon’s health business is coming into focus

In November 2021, Neil Lindsay was named to head Amazon’s health business. It wasn’t because of his medical expertise. He didn’t have any. “The reason I’m in this job is because I know how to build things in Amazon,” says Lindsay, who had spent 11 years at the company in marketing roles relating to Prime, devices, and other areas at the time of his appointment.

At Amazon, maybe even more than other tech giants, proven success at understanding the cor

How AI helped Apple sell $46 billion worth of iPhones

Apple snapped out of a recent iPhone sales slump during its summer quarter, an early sign that its recent efforts to revive demand for its marquee product with an infusion of artificial intelligence are paying off.

Sales of the iPhone totaled $46.22 billion for the July-September period, a 6% increase from the same time last year, according to Apple’s fiscal fourth-quarter report released Thursday. That improvement reversed two consecutive year-over-year declines in the iPhone&#

Google Updates Crawl Budget Best Practices via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google has updated its crawl budget guidelines, stressing the need to maintain consistent link structures between the mobile and desktop versions of websites.

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Marketers in a dying internet: Why the only option is a return to simplicity

There’s a famous saying: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The quote—taken from a New Yorker cartoon published in, if you can believe it, 1993—made a simple point about the anonymity provided by the internet: Shielded by a monitor, you could be anyone.

I had assumed this quote would remain eternally relevant. Not so. In 2024, a person might

Skiplagged just lost a lawsuit to a major airline—but says it will keep finding secret deals for flyers 

Travel search company Skiplagged boasts that it can help you “find flights the airlines don’t want you to see,” using “loopholes in airfare pricing to save you money.”

That proposition hasn’t always sat well with the airlines. In fact, American Airlines recently won a $

How To Be Efficient With SEO Budget During Downtimes via @sejournal, @coreydmorris

SEO downtimes mean a narrower and refined focus on the opportunity you have with the budget and resources available. Learn eight steps to be efficient.

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Femtech: 2 books you need to read

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of startup activity addressing issues of the “female” sort. For the first time in history, women at a mass scale have the power to create businesses to solve their problems. If you’ve noticed more attention being given to menopause, menstrual cycles, and everything in between, it is a direct result of more companies paying attention to the numerous unaddressed issues affecting the lives and health within the overlooked femtech market.

How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs

Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel is rethinking IDEs. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/11/01/how-a-creator-of-react-is-rethinking-ides/

Can OpenAI’s Strawberry program deceive humans?


OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called Strawberry. It is designed not just to provide quick responses to questions, like ChatGPT, but to think or “reason”. This raises several major concerns. If St

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Kvantový Halloween: Rekordní Schrödingerova kočka přežila přes 23 minut

Kvantové kočky jsou jako z cukru. Jen lehce zaprší a rozpustí se. Stav superpozice, v němž se kvantové kočky nacházejí, je obvykle velmi křehký. Čínští fyzici ale nedávno dokázali, že ho lze udržet po experimentálně velmi dlouhou dobu. Jejich kočky z atomů ytterbia-173 žily 1 400 sekund. http://www.osel.cz/13764-kvantovy-halloween-rekordni-schr-dingerova-kocka-prezila-pres-23-minut.html

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‘Now that’s what I call a cheese pull’: Chili’s sales are surging thanks to TikTok

“Is Chili’s triple dipper worth it?” Irene Kim asks in a TikTok with nearly 450,000 views. She zooms in to show her selection of Honey Chipotle Chicken Crispers, Big Mouth Bites, and Nashville Hot Mozz, accompanied with three sides of ranch. Taking a bite of the mozzarella stick, she says “now that’s what I call a cheese pull,” stretching the stick until it is almost out of shot. “For $16, worth it.” 

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New York kids are dying attempting the subway surfing challenge

A dangerous trend inspired by the popular mobile game Subway Surfers sees young kids and teens catching rides on top of moving trains—sometimes with fatal consequences. 

On October 23, 13-year-old Adolfo Sanabria Sorzano died after attempting the subway surfing challenge in Queens, New York. Days later, 13-year-old Krystel Romero died after falling off a 7 train while also partaking in the trend. Romero’s 12-year-old fri

This New York site will be the nation’s headquarters for semiconductor research

A semiconductor research facility in upstate New York was selected as one of three national technology centers and will receive up to $825 million in funding as part of a broader

OpenAI launches web search in ChatGPT

OpenAI is launching internet search functionality within its ChatGPT AI chatbot. For paid subscribers, the chatbot will now be able to integrate up-to-date web information into its answers. 

The search function assembles a custom package of information in response to a search. For instance, the search “what’s the latest stock price and news for Company X” yields a quick summary, then a neat stock price chart, followed by a list of recent news items about Company X—each with a

ChatGPT’s new web search function puts the web ecosystem (and Google) on notice 

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OpenAI bursts into a growing AI Search race

OpenAI on Thursday launched its AI search product to ChatGPT Pro subscription use

A brief summary of language model finetuning

There are a ton of different ways to finetune a language model. Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purpose, and what we know about how they work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/31/a-brief-summary-of-language-model-finetuning/

This Google Maps update is refreshingly not all about AI

If Google is in the middle of reinventing itself around AI, you wouldn’t know it from the latest Google Maps updates.

Yes, there are the obligatory new Gemini AI integrations in the form of review summaries and more granular search queries, and those are what dominate Google’s press release about the news. But for the most part, the update is about meat-and-potatoes improvements to the core mapping and navigation experience, most of which don’t involve generative AI.

“We’re not just d

X’s crowdsourced fact-checking can’t keep up with the deluge of election misinformation, report shows

X’s crowdsourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform, according to a report published Wednesday by a group that tracks online speech.

The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate analyzed the Community Notes feature and found that accurate notes correcting false and misleading claims about the U.S. elections were not displayed on 209 out of a sample of 283 p

Here’s what this eerily accurate presidential election simulation told me about who will win the 2024 election

If ever there was a time that Americans needed a video game simulation of the presidential election cycle, it was probably—well, never. But since 2004, The Political Machine has done just that, with a new edition every presidential election year for political junkies or game fans who love to plot strategy on a national scale. This year’s edition has  sold more than 50,000 copies si

Global SEO: How To Strategize For Multinational Businesses via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW

Going global with SEO: Discover how to create a successful multinational SEO strategy by considering cultural norms, user behavior, and market-specific factors.

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How to use Instagram to date when your coworkers are following you

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

How to spot and flag political misinformation

“[I]f a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour”, satirist Jonathan Swift said, “it has done its Work.” He was writing about politics in 1710, but things haven’t changed: Modern voters are bombarded with political misinformation designed to mislead and influence. So, how do you spot and flag

The 4 numbers that will define Joe Biden’s space legacy

The Biden administration’s legacy in space is one of global reach and using space as a soft power tool, as evidenced by its leadership on initiatives such as banning destructive anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons testing and promoting the responsible use of space internationally through the Artemis Accords.

37: The number of nations that have adopted the U.S. ban on ASAT testing

How AI can help you make a computer game without knowing anything about coding


Just as calculators took over the tedious number-crunching in maths a few decades ago, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming coding. Take Kyo, an eight-year-old boy in Singapore who developed a simple platform game in just two hours, attracting over 500,

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These are 3 of the hardest and 3 of the easiest programming languages to learn


Whether you’re looking to change the direction of your career or expand your skillset as a programmer, the languages you chose to learn will significantly impact your time commitment and prospects. Some languages use familiar syntax, welcome minimum code comma

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