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Hello again! Weeks 9 and 10 covered the fourth estimator family, the first release that carries my work, and a git mess that taught me more than the code did. PR #1920 merged, and sbi 0.27 shipped First, the ratio estimator builder from my last post made it in, together with the whole base class hardening bundle. Right after that, sbi 0.27 was released and PRs 1 to 5 were ported over to main . So the typed builder API is now actually in a release, for NPE, NLE, MNPE, MNLE and all four NRE variants. That also means the free rename window is closed. The z_score_input and z_score_condition names we picked in week 7 are now the shipped names, which is exactly why we did that rename when we did. Writing the design before the code Under the new workflow I described last time, the vector field work started with a markdown file instead of a Python file. The vector field family is genuinely harder than the others. build_vector_field_estimator picks along what looks like three axes at the same time: whether you want flow matching or score matching, which SDE type you want if it is score matching, and which network architecture sits inside. And unlike every other family, there are no per-model build functions to hang a config class on. I wrote up the options with some open questions then my mentor, Jan reviewed it and we settled on one builder with a base class abstraction to cut the redundancy across builders. Doing this on paper first was clearly the right call. Some of the things I had assumed while writing the proposal turned out to be wrong, and finding that out in a review comment on a markdown file was a lot cheaper than finding it out in a review comment on 800 lines of code. PR #1921 : VectorFieldEstimatorBuilder With the design agreed, the implementation covers FMPE and NPSE. The builder takes the architecture as model , one of mlp , ada_mlp , transformer or transformer_cross_attn , plus estimator_type for flow versus score and sde_type for the noise schedule. One de

Gmail verification program lets political campaigns escape its spam filter.

Originally published on echoeffect.net . If you have been inside Google Search Console recently and clicked into the Pages report (previously called Index Coverage), you may have seen a section titled "Why pages aren't indexed." That list tells you exactly which URLs Google found on your site but chose not to add to its search index, and the reason for each one. This is not abstract SEO theory. Pages that are not indexed cannot rank. If Google is excluding pages from your site, you are losing search visibility you should have, and the reason is usually fixable once you understand what Google is actually telling you. This post covers the four most common "not indexed" statuses small business websites encounter, what each one means in plain terms, and the exact steps to resolve it. A quick note before diving in: Some pages on your site should not be indexed. Thank-you pages, admin pages, internal search result pages, and duplicate filter pages are examples where non-indexing is correct. Before fixing any of these errors, confirm the flagged URL is actually a page you want in Google's index. 1. Page With Redirect What it means: Google followed one of your URLs and landed on a different URL because a redirect was in place. The original URL is not indexed. Only the final destination URL is eligible to be indexed. This status is usually caused by one of three things: Old URLs still listed in your XML sitemap that have since been redirected (common after a site redesign or domain migration) HTTP versions of pages listed in your sitemap when the live site runs on HTTPS Trailing-slash inconsistencies, where your sitemap lists yoursite.com/page but the server redirects to yoursite.com/page/ The redirect itself is not necessarily a problem. A 301 redirect is the correct way to permanently move a page. The issue is that Google's crawler is spending time and crawl budget following chains to find the real URL, and your sitemap or internal links are pointing to the wrong address.

One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, […]

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

Google has added some smart theft-detection features to Android in recent years.

You probably don't need antivirus software on your Android phone, but there are some exceptions.

The differences between the iPhone and Android show up when you connect them to your car, as well.

1. What Is Android Developer Verification and Why Google Introduced It In August 2025, Google quietly announced a major policy change called Android Developer Verification . Starting September 2026 (first in select countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, then rolling out globally), every developer whose app is installed on certified Android devices must register with Google. This is not limited to apps distributed through the Google Play Store. It applies to all apps — including those sideloaded from websites, shared via APK files, distributed through F-Droid, or even internal company tools and hobby projects. Google’s official reason is “improved security and accountability” — to stop repeat malware developers. However, the implementation goes far beyond that. It creates a central registry controlled entirely by Google, where every person or organization building Android software must identify themselves. 2. How the Verification Process Actually Works (Step-by-Step Details) To get their apps installable on most Android phones, developers must complete the following: Create or use a Google Play Console developer account. Pay a registration fee (standard accounts are around $25, with possible additional costs). Agree to Google’s lengthy Terms and Conditions without negotiation. Submit government-issued identification (passport, driver’s license, or national ID). Provide proof of ownership of their app’s signing key (the private key used to sign APKs). List all current and all future application package names (com.example.myapp) they plan to use. Once registered and verified, apps from that developer can install normally. If a developer does not register or fails verification, their apps will be silently blocked by Google Play Protect on certified devices worldwide. This process turns what was once a simple “build and share APK” workflow into a permission-based system where Google acts as the gatekeeper for the entire Android ecosystem. 3. The “Adva

Google has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, providing significant updates for coding, automation, and the development of autonomous agents. The company reduced production pricing to help businesses deploy these tools more affordably. This release comes only three weeks after the previous version, signaling a faster pace for developer-focused updates. Accelerated development cycles and cost reduction strategies The introduction of Gemini 3.7 Flash highlights a shift in how technology providers manage their product lineups. Google is prioritizing rapid iteration for its Flash series, which serves as a high-speed tool for developers. This latest version arrived less than a month after its predecessor, showing the company responds quickly to user feedback. Engineers designed this model to handle software engineering tasks and complex, multi-step workflows with higher precision. Pricing for the new model sits at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. This represents a reduction of approximately fifty percent compared to the prior version. By lowering the financial barrier, Google aims to make large-scale production deployments more sustainable for businesses. The company describes this version as a reliable workhorse capable of following instructions with greater accuracy than previous iterations. While the Flash series moves quickly, the more advanced Pro models follow a different path. These high-end models, designed for the most difficult reasoning tasks, see less frequent updates. During recent financial discussions, leadership at the company did not provide a specific timeline for the next Pro release. This indicates a growing gap between fast, cost-effective models and the slower development of premium intelligence tiers. Industry trends in model tiering Other companies in the industry are following similar patterns by separating their offerings into distinct categories. For example, some competitors have launched high-end variants alongside

Google has a week to make it easier to find third-party app stores.

Arguably the coolest new photo feature for the Pixel 11 lineup is Google's new Camera Looks, which process image data differently at the sensor level to produce photos that don't have that "smartphone" look. The result is new styles like "Digi," which mimics the style of photos taken by older digital cameras. But to use […]

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of […]

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.

Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.

Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.

Apple and Google still aren't done facing Epic Games in court.

Ruby Rose Bloom sells one-of-a-kind vintage — a self-hosted storefront, no Shopify, no marketplace underneath it. Search Console's "Merchant opportunities" report told me 3 active products weren't showing up on the Shopping tab, and I went looking for the setting to fix. There wasn't one. What I actually found, three days of digging later, is that "get into Merchant Center" is not one thing — it's several different surfaces, each fed by a different mechanism, and the one everyone talks about (the Shopping tab) turned out to be the least interesting of them. This post is the question I actually had, answered with screenshots taken today: I have a storefront. What does getting into Merchant Center buy me, and where do my products actually end up? It also has an ending I didn't plan. After three days of feed fields and structured data I opened one Search Console report I'd been ignoring and found that Google had indexed 5 of my 436 pages — and, chasing that, that essentially none of my product photos were in the image index either. Those two sections are the most useful thing here, and they're the part I'd read first if I were you. What Merchant Center actually is Before the surfaces: Merchant Center is not an ads product by default. There are two lanes. Free listings are unpaid — you register a feed, Google reviews the items, approved items become eligible to appear in Shopping-related placements at no cost per click. This is the lane a small shop should care about first, because it costs nothing beyond the engineering time to feed it correctly. Shopping ads are the paid lane on top — you attach a budget and the same feed becomes the input to a campaign. Ruby Rose Bloom is running free listings only; there is no ad spend anywhere in this post. Free listings in Merchant Center: approved items, no ad spend, click potential still "available soon" on a three-day-old account. Free listings is the whole story for this shop. Worth saying plainly since most "how to get on Goo

One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today - where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android. It's been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided […]