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
Before you pay for another SEO tool, try these five free options from Google. Here’s why they work.
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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
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
Google's June 2025 update is over. Here are some clues about what may have happened.
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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
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/
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
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
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’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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ChatGPT agent is a turning point for SEO because it changes how websites are expected to function for both humans and machines.
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“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.
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 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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Former Google Search engineer Andrew Yan launches Athena, a startup helping brands optimize their visibility in AI-generated answers.
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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
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’
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 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 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
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
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
In this edition of IMHO, Shelley Walsh speaks with Stephen Kenwright about how traditional marketing fuels LLM performance and brand trust.
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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, 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
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 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
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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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
Google's John Mueller answers whether it is okay to show logged-out users different content from what is in the structured data.
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The Brave Search API is now available in Amazon's new AI Agents and Tools category in the AWS Marketplace.
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Learn the importance of reviews for local SEO. Find out how reviews impact conversion and search ranking in the age of AIO.
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Google has added a comparison mode to Search Console's 24-hour view, letting you analyze hourly performance trends against previous days.
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Cloudflare report shows that, of customer‑identified DDoS attacks, 63% are competitor‑led and 5% are self‑inflicted.
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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
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.
Wix announced a new tool that reports AI visibility, benchmarks competitors, and tracks AI-driven queries and traffic
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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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Google Search can now call local businesses using AI to gather pricing and availability info on your behalf. Here's how it works.
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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
So long and thanks for all the bits! https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/16/the-great-unracking-saying-goodbye-to-the-servers-at-our-physical-datacenter/
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
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
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
“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
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
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
What happens when 86% of your traffic shows up as “direct” in GA4? Greg Jarboe breaks down what CMOs are missing and why it matters.
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A clear PPC growth system that avoids costly overreactions and delivers long-term profitability through focused, strategic scaling.
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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
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
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
Google Search Console Core Web Vitals reporting for mobile is showing a confirmed dip in metrics reported in CrUX.
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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
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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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
Anthropic's announcement signals a strategic shift toward vertical-specific AI tools with the release of its latest product.
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Malware Malware Scanner plugin with over 10,000 installations hit with high severity vulnerability with no fix currently offered.
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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
WordPress released version 6.8.2, which fixes 35 issues and ends security support for versions 4.1 through 4.6
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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 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
The latest version of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is echoing the views of its billionaire creator, so much so that it will sometimes search online for Musk’s stance on an issue before offering up an opinion.
The unusual behavior of
In this week’s Growth Memo, Kevin Indig lays out the case for a topic-first SEO approach, and how it helps future-proof your visibility.
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Google updated the Search Analytics API with a metadata field that helps identify when recent data is still being processed.
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London-based insurtech startup Laka has raised $10.4mn in Series B funding as it eyes profitability at the end of next year. Laka offers “collective” insurance for bikes and e-scooters, pooling claims across a community of riders. Instead of fixed, upfront premium
A gleaming Belle from Beauty and the Beast glided along the exhibition floor at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con adorned in a yellow corseted gown with cascading satin folds. She could barely take two steps before a cluster of little girls stopped her for photos. As she waved one hand, her other delicately held a red flower with mechanized fingers. The kids stared. It’s not every day you see a fairy-tale princess with a cybernetic hand. Disney meets Skynet. But this being the epicente
This week’s Ask An SEO dives into why content stopped ranking, even when it seems original and experience-based.
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The internet wasn’t born whole—it came together from parts. Most know of ARPANET, the internet’s most famous precursor, but it was always limited strictly to government use. It was NSFNET that brought many networks together, and the internet that we use today is almost NSFNET itself.
Almost, but not quite: in 1995, the government that had raised the internet from its infancy gave it a firm shove out the door. Call it a graduation, or a coming of age. I think of it as the internet g
Google's John Mueller discusses the value of websites and answers what impact AI will have on the need for SEO.
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