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Meta's Oversight Board has made several suggestions to make reporting sexualized AI deepfakes easier and more effective for ordinary people.

Every World Cup there's a moment. Some player nobody outside their domestic league had heard of scores an absolute screamer in a knockout match, and by the time they've finished celebrating, their follower count is climbing like a rocket. I always found that fascinating, but I could never see it happening in real time. By the time the "X gained 3 million followers!" tweets show up, the surge is already over. So this tournament I built a little tracker that snapshots player follower counts on a schedule and shows me the growth curve as it happens. Here's how it works. Why the official APIs were a dead end My first instinct was to do this "properly" with official APIs. That died fast: Instagram's Graph API won't give you follower counts for accounts you don't own. TikTok's research API is academics-only and takes weeks of applications. X's API now starts at $100/month. I just wanted public follower counts — numbers anyone can see by opening the app. I didn't want a data partnership and a legal review. I ended up using SociaVault , which wraps the public profile data from each platform behind one API and one key. One request, one credit, JSON back. The shared client Everything runs through one tiny helper: // Node 18+ has fetch built in const API_KEY = process . env . SOCIAVAULT_API_KEY ; const BASE = " https://api.sociavault.com " ; async function sv ( path , params ) { const url = new URL ( BASE + path ); Object . entries ( params ). forEach (([ k , v ]) => url . searchParams . set ( k , v )); const res = await fetch ( url , { headers : { " X-API-Key " : API_KEY } }); if ( ! res . ok ) throw new Error ( ` ${ res . status } ${ await res . text ()} ` ); return res . json (); } Grabbing follower counts across platforms Each platform nests the count slightly differently, so I use fallback chains to stay defensive: async function instagramFollowers ( username ) { const data = await sv ( " /v1/scrape/instagram/profile " , { username }); const p = data . data ?. user ?? dat

Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the ground, it looks like a…

My main work laptop is a Dell from 2017 with 8 GB of RAM. For weeks it had been crawling, freezing for whole seconds while I worked, and every so often it would simply switch itself off in the middle of a task. If you have ever lost unsaved work to a laptop that powers down on its own, you know exactly how frustrating that is. So I sat down and fixed it properly. The first thing I learned is worth saying up front: a slow, crashing laptop is usually two different problems wearing the same costume . Treat them as one and you will chase your tail. Separate them, and both become fixable. Everything below is free and copy-paste ready. It was tested on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and it applies to almost any older Linux machine. The honest disclaimer: Nobody can promise an old laptop will never lag. Software cannot add cores or memory that are not physically there. But you can absolutely stop the freezes and shutdowns completely and make everyday work feel smooth. That is the realistic, achievable goal. 0. Diagnose first, do not guess The biggest mistake is blindly applying "speed up Ubuntu" tweaks before knowing what is actually wrong. Spend five minutes measuring. Your lag has one of four common causes: heat, memory, disk, or a dying battery . Check temperature (the usual cause of random shutdowns): sudo apt install lm-sensors -y sudo sensors-detect --auto sensors Watch the Core temperatures while you work. If they spike past 90 to 100 °C right before a crash, you have a thermal problem, not a software one. Check memory (the usual cause of freezing): free -h sudo apt install htop -y htop In htop , watch the Mem and Swp bars during normal use. If memory pins near your limit and swap fills up, that thrashing is your freeze. Check disk space (a quiet killer): df -h / A root partition above 90% full makes Linux lag and turn unstable. Small SSDs fill up fast. Read the crash logs and battery health: # What went wrong during the previous (crashed) session journalctl -b -1 -p err --no-pa

Why a build log (and not another tutorial) Every AI shopping tutorial shows the same thing: install the SDK, call a tool, ship. None of them show what happens when the API returns a price that is stale , the merchant is geo-blocked , or the agent has to reconcile four different currencies for a single shopper query. This is the build log of a working cross-border shopping agent — what we shipped, what broke, and the patterns we now use on every customer integration. What we are building A conversational agent that takes a product brief ("noise-cancelling headphones under SGD 400") and returns the three cheapest matching offers across SG, US, and JP retailers in real time , with currency conversion and shipping transparency. It uses BuyWhere MCP as the price-discovery layer (5M+ products, 6M+ offers, 100+ merchants, 5 currency modes). The architecture, after three iterations v1 — naive : agent calls search_products , picks top 3, returns them. Failed because the agent had no idea which offers were in stock or shippable to the user. v2 — offer-aware : agent calls search_products (with mode=offer ), then calls get_product on each to pull current price + shipping. Failed because round-trips to get_product added 8–11s of uncached latency on the first request. v3 — multi-region, currency-normalised (the one that ships): search_products with mode=offer and a regional filter Filter offers by in-stock + ships_to=user_region in the agent prompt For cross-region results, call find_similar to get the same product in the local catalog and pick the cheaper of (local offer + shipping) vs (foreign offer + conversion + shipping) Return three results with a one-line rationale per choice The result is a 1.2–2.4s response time and a 73% click-through on the top result, measured over 1,800 shopper queries last week. Three patterns we use on every integration now 1. Always pass mode=offer for shopping tasks mode=product returns the canonical product card (good for browsing and category p

You open the "Updates" page in WordPress admin and see that Elementor Pro / ACF Pro / vk-blocks-pro have updates available. Then you run wp plugin update --all from your automation, and those exact plugins don't update. The asymmetry — "the admin sees it; WP-CLI doesn't" — traces back to how WordPress detects updates and how premium plugins layer proprietary update mechanisms on top of that. Here's the mechanism and how an automation tool can adapt. WordPress update detection is held by a transient cache WordPress doesn't decide "is there an update?" on every request. It caches the answer in the wp_options table as a transient, valid for up to 12 hours. The key entries: _site_transient_update_plugins — latest plugin versions _site_transient_update_themes — themes _site_transient_update_core — core If those transients are stale, even a version that just shipped on wordpress.org reads as "no update needed." WP-CLI consults the same transients, so stale cache = WP-CLI misses the update too . In one customer environment on ConoHa WING, we reproduced "version X is on wordpress.org, WP-CLI doesn't see it" directly. Trap 1 and fix 1 — force-refresh the transients before listing updates The first step was simple: at the start of a maintenance run, delete the three transients before querying the update list . def _flush_update_transients ( self , conn , wp_cmd , wp_path , site_name ): """ Delete update transients between DB backup and update step """ for t in ( " update_plugins " , " update_themes " , " update_core " ): conn . run ( f " { wp_cmd } transient delete { t } --path= { wp_path } " , warn = True , hide = True , ) Deleting the transients triggers a rebuild on the next wp plugin list --update=available . During the rebuild, WordPress reaches out to wordpress.org, so the returned list reflects the current release state . That handled the "we were just reading a stale cache" cases. But it didn't help with premium plugins. Trap 2 — with --skip-plugins , Pro updater filt

46.4%. That number — ChatGPT's June 2026 market share — ends a streak that held since November 2022. For the first time since the product launched, OpenAI holds less than half the AI assistant market. Gemini is at 27.7%. Claude is at 10.3%. The monopoly phase of AI assistants is over. The data comes from a June 2026 market report tracking monthly active users across major AI assistants. ChatGPT still leads with 1.11 billion monthly users — a number that would define the entire category in any other software market. But Gemini has 662 million, up 129 million in five months. Claude sits at 245 million, nearly four times its December 2025 count of 60.2 million. The trajectory is the story, not the absolute numbers. Why the 50% Threshold Actually Matters Below 50% doesn't mean decline. ChatGPT's absolute user count keeps growing. What the threshold signals is the end of single-platform dominance — the condition where building for "AI users" meant building for ChatGPT users. That assumption no longer holds in mid-2026. For context: search engine market share stayed above 90% for Google for nearly a decade after competitors entered. Social network market share for Facebook stayed above 70% for years after Instagram and Twitter had genuine scale. The pace of AI assistant fragmentation is meaningfully faster than those precedents. Three products above 10% share in under two years of real competition is an unusually fast split. What fragmentation means practically: the community knowledge base — YouTube tutorials, Reddit threads, prompt libraries — that once pointed almost exclusively at ChatGPT now covers three platforms with genuine depth. That changes how you can expect your users to arrive at your AI-integrated product, and what they already know about AI when they get there. Gemini's 662 Million Users Are Not What They Look Like Gemini's surge from under 500 million to 662 million monthly users in five months is impressive on paper. The driver is less impressive: Google

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." Still, it doesn't address all of the concerns around AI data […]

The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos…

Nvidia's Nader Khalil — Director of Developer Technologies and co-founder of Brev.dev, acquired by Nvidia two years ago — sat down with The New Stack to talk agents, OpenClaw, and where enterprise AI is heading. His opening line is worth keeping: "An agent is an LLM and a harness. And if you think about that, it involves two things. It involves the loop and the LLM… Each loop should take us closer to our goal." That's not a complicated definition. It's also exactly right — and the fact that Nvidia's internal framing lands here matters more than the quote itself. What actually happened Nvidia has full-time OpenClaw contributors. Khalil: "We have a couple of developers at the company that contribute to OpenClaw full time." That's a real commitment, not a press-release mention. NemoClaw is their enterprise blueprint — a reference architecture for running OpenClaw (and Hermes) in production, with GPU routing, security policies, and a runtime called OpenShell. Khalil traces the harness evolution directly: from ChatGPT's system prompts → memory → file context → Cursor → Claude Code. All of it is harness, not model. The model is constant; the harness is where the product lives. On OpenClaw's PR backlog: "It got more stars than Linux in months… so I think you're gonna see a mountain of PRs." Their response — roll up their sleeves and start merging. Why this framing matters Nvidia makes money when AI compute scales. For that to happen, agents need to work reliably in enterprise environments — and the harness is the reliability layer. Their NemoClaw blueprints aren't a product play; they're an enablement play. Enterprise teams get a reference architecture that works on Nvidia silicon. Nvidia gets demand for the GPUs underneath. It's the CUDA X model applied to agentic AI. The microwave analogy Khalil uses is useful: "when it's your microwave at home, you just go 'Boop, boop. Done.'" Every enterprise will build specialized agents tuned to their domain — CrowdStrike, Cadence, P

আমার colleague এখন প্ল্যান দেখতে পারছে। Scan types বুঝতে পারছে। Join types বুঝতে পারছে। Estimate আর actual এর gap দেখতে পারছে। BUFFERS ও দেখছে। কিন্তু সে প্রশ্ন করল। এসব দেখে কি করব? Step by step কোন পথে যাব? আমি বললাম। পাঁচটা step আছে। অর্ডার অনুযায়ী। পর্ব ২ এ আমি বলেছিলাম scan types, join types, estimate আর actual এর gap। BUFFERS কি। এবার আসি সমাধান এ। Diagnostic Workflow আপনার কাছে একটা slow query এসেছে। কিভাবে debug করবেন? এই পাঁচটা প্রশ্ন করুন অর্ডার অনুযায়ী। ৯০% slow query প্রথম বা দ্বিতীয় ধাপেই solve হয়ে যায়। ১. Deepest Seq Scan দেখুন Table বড় কি না? Filter selective কি না? Missing index থাকলে add করুন। আজই শুরু করুন যখন একটা Seq Scan দেখবেন big table এ, প্রথমে WHERE clause টা check করুন। Selective কি না? ৫% এর কম row return হওয়ার কথা? যদি তাই হয়, index missing। CREATE INDEX idx_name ON table(column) run করুন। ২. Join types দেখুন কোনো Nested Loop আছে কিন্তু দুই পাশেই বড় table? Hash Join force করুন বা ডান পাশে index add করুন। আজই শুরু করুন Nested Loop দেখলে ডান পাশের table এ index check করুন। যদি না থাকে, create করুন। Index থাকা সত্ত্বেও planner Nested Loop use করছে? SET enable_nestloop = off temporarily disable করে দেখুন। Hash Join আসবে কি না। ৩. Row estimates দেখুন Estimate vs actual ১০x এর বেশি difference? ANALYZE table দিন বা predicate rewrite করুন। আজই শুরু করুন rows=1 estimate কিন্তু rows=100000 actual দেখলে ANALYZE tablename run করুন। Statistics refresh হবে। তারপর plan আবার দেখুন। যদি তাও না আসে, WHERE clause rewrite করুন। Function call থাকলে remove করুন। Type mismatch থাকলে fix করুন। ৪. BUFFERS add করুন কোনো node এ অনেক disk reads? Caching investigate করুন। আজই শুরু করুন EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) run করে দেখুন shared read high কোথায়। সেই node টাই bottleneck। Index add করলে reads কমবে। Pre-warm cache করতে পারেন। Data pre-load করতে পারেন। ৫. Sorts আর hashes দেখুন কোনো spill-to-disk আছে? work_mem raise করুন বা sort eliminate করুন। আজই শুরু করুন Plan এ external merge Disk: 421MB দেখলে spill-to-disk হয়েছে। SET work_mem = '256MB' temporarily rais

WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED to replace Cathcart.

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Today, I’m talking with Jack Conte, the CEO of Patreon. Jack last joined me on the show almost exactly five years ago, in the summer of 2021, and a lot has changed on the internet and in the creator landscape since then, so I was very excited to talk to him again, especially since his […]

I joined a team where the controller was 800 lines long, the business rules were scattered between the controller and the DbContext , and "to run the tests, spin up a SQL Server in Docker" was a sentence I heard every week. The fix was Clean Architecture. The argument I had with the team lead was about how to actually structure it. We argued for two weeks. Then I built this template so the next person wouldn't have to. This is the Clean Architecture .NET 8 starter template I wish someone had handed me on day one. Four projects, strict dependency direction, domain entities that own their own invariants, and an Application layer you can unit test with Moq — no database required. The whole repo is on GitHub , MIT-licensed, runs with dotnet run , and ships with xUnit tests, JWT auth, Swagger, Docker, and CI. This post is the explanation of why each project exists, what goes in it, and what I learned the hard way about getting Clean Architecture right in .NET. The problem Clean Architecture solves The naive way to build a .NET Web API is one project, one folder structure, and "everything talks to everything": MyApp/ Controllers/ ProductsController.cs ← HTTP stuff OrdersController.cs ← HTTP stuff + business rules Services/ ProductService.cs ← business rules + DbContext.SaveChanges Data/ AppDbContext.cs ← EF Core, entities Models/ Product.cs ← POCO with public setters This works for the first 1,000 lines. By 5,000 lines, the controller is doing five things at once. By 10,000, "to test this, I need a database" is the answer to every test question, and your CI takes 20 minutes because every test run spins up SQL Server. Clean Architecture says: separate the business rules from the HTTP boundary, separate the database from the business rules, and enforce it with project references. A controller is allowed to call a service. A service is allowed to call a repository. A repository is allowed to know about EF Core. Nothing is allowed to know about anything "above" it in the chai