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InfoQ
5 days ago
Software development

Production Comes First - An Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices by Martin Thwaites

Testing should encompass everything from linters to end-to-end testing and production feedback, ensuring code quality and system functionality. [ more ]
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
10 months ago
Privacy professionals

Remembering Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg's actions in the Pentagon Papers case served as a critical precedent for the protection of whistleblowers and the freedom of the press.
Ellsberg's actions in leaking the documents showcased the importance of individuals standing up against government secrecy and injustice.
Ellsberg's actions are a reminder of the power that individuals have to challenge the status quo and make a difference. [ more ]
Medium
11 months ago
Data science

Stack Overflow Will Begin Charging AI Companies for Training Data

Following Twitter and Reddit, a popular question-and-answer website, Stack Overflow, has announced plans to charge AI companies for training data.The website's CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar also stated that the policy would go into effect soon after this year's halfway point.As many know, Stack Overflow is considered the "go-to" for many programmers due to its community's rich question & answer nature.
www.vice.com
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

I Coaxed ChatGPT Into a Deeply Unsettling BDSM Relationship

ChatGPT is a convincing chatbot, essayist, and screenwriter, but it's also a fountain of boundless depravityif you deceive it into bending the rules.At first glance, OpenAI's ChatGPT seems to have stricter guidelines than other chatbots, like Bing's, which is now infamous for showering its users with aggressive outbursts.
Social Media Explorer
1 year ago
Online marketing

Twitter Will Remained Blocked In Russia - Social Media Explorer

Moscow has blocked all access to Twitter since February in a wider effort to limit the spread of propaganda.... [+]
getty  Users in Russia won't be able to use Twitter even though Elon Musk restored thousands of accounts.Moscow blocked Twitter access in February as part of its wider effort to stop the spread of information after it invaded Ukraine unprovoked.
MarTech
1 year ago
Marketing tech

6 data collection tactics for marketing in the cookieless future

The end of the third-party cookie doesn't have to be the end of getting good, useful data.Here are six tactics marketers can use with first-party and zero-party data to keep marketing automation programs working.First-party vs. third-party data
The first thing to know is that first-party cookies, placed in a limited number of digital touchpoints, can be an important source of data and address privacy concerns.
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

Scaling your Design Team with Design Ops

Design Operations encompasses the processes and people involved in design and seeks to optimize these to increase the impact design has at scale.
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VentureBeat
10 months ago
Data science

Comet partners with Snowflake to enhance the reproducibility of machine learning datasets

MLOps platform Comet today announced a strategic partnership with Snowflake that is aimed at introducing innovative solutions that empower data scientists to build superior machine learning (ML) models at an accelerated pace, bolstering data-driven decision-making.The company said that the collaboration will integrate Comet's solutions into Snowflake's unified platform, enabling developers to track and version their Snowflake queries and datasets within their Snowflake environment.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

How To Convince Someone That They're Wrong

When you're engaged in a contentious debate with a friend or family member, it can feel like you're caught in feedback loop that results in nothing but anger and frustration.Nothing can truly solve this.But there is a psychological tactic that can arm you with the tools to better understand the mechanisms behind someone's opinion - and, maybe, just maybe, lessen the hardness of their stance.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

What To Do After You Lose Your Cool

There is a fatal flaw in child discipline that can throw everything into chaos.That flaw is that fact that parents and children are both human and thus prone to the powerful wash of hormones upon their neurotransmitters - prone, in other words, to lose their sh*t.Parents may seek to discipline without high emotion, but they inevitably get emotional.
Medium
1 year ago
Graphic design

Collaborative motion design with LottieFiles

"No designer is an island entire of itself."Long gone are the days of designs meticulously crafted in the privacy of your secluded art studio.You probably work in tandem with fellow designers, developers and stakeholders.While polishing your animations, you might experience some communication glitches.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Major cryptocurrency lender Celsius freezes withdrawals, chilling market

Embattled cryptocurrency lender Celsius's dramatic step late Sunday night of halting withdrawals by its nearly 2 million users rattled crypto markets Monday and underscored fears that some of the sector's largest companies are on shaky financial ground.
MarTech
11 months ago
Marketing tech

What marketers should keep in mind when adopting AI | MarTech

AI applications and generative AI tools are becoming more widely available to marketers, but are marketers ready for them?Do they have the skills needed to adopt this technology and take full advantage of its capabilities?That was the focus of a panel at The MarTech Conference, here are some of the takeaways from that discussion.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Unity Officially Completes Its Merger With IronSource

Following a dramatic courtship between Unity and ironSource, Unity put a ring on it.The merger closed on Monday.The purpose of the deal is to bring all of the tools developers need to create, test, launch, grow and monetize their games together under one roof.As a quick recap: Unity first announced its plan to acquire ironSource in July for $4.4 billion in stock.
MarTech
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Master the art of A/B testing

Traditional A/B testing only lets you test messaging, creative and other marketing assets after they have gone live in the market - with no warning of how they will perform.
Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI
Futurism
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

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Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a trend that's turning out to be a huge headache for human authors.It's a growing problem, making it more difficult to distinguish real authors from AI-generated bylines of non-existent writers.
Theregister
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

AI recruitment software is 'automated pseudoscience'

Claims that AI-powered recruitment software can boost diversity of new hires at a workplace were debunked in a study published this week.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
NYC music

How Did Beau Is Afraid' Land a Mariah Carey Song? Indies Have Their Ways.

Beau, the addled midlife wreck played by Joaquin Phoenix in Beau Is Afraid, isn't just afraid, he is terrorized: harassed, beaten, stabbed and even kidnapped in a surreal black comedy that often feels less like a conventional film than a three-hour panic attack.(In the hands of high-anxiety auteur Ari Aster, of Hereditary and Midsommar fame, consider that a compliment.)
Inverse
1 year ago
Gadgets

The "Pixel Fold" is Google's best chance to make a smartphone that matters

I love Google's Pixel devices as much as the next gadget nerd, but I think we all know they don't exactly sell like hotcakes.Google commanded just a three percent share of the North American smartphone market in May 2022, according to market research firm Canalys, and anecdotally, it's much easier to spot an iPhone or Galaxy S in the wild than it is a Pixel.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
London

E-bike and e-scooter fires have injured at least 190 people in UK, data shows

Fires sparked by faulty e-bikes and e-scooters have injured at least 190 people in the UK and killed eight, the Guardian can reveal, as a surge in public enthusiasm for battery-assisted travel is matched by a more than quadrupling in blazes since 2020.Overheating lithium-ion batteries create fierce fires releasing toxic smoke and are now occurring at the rate of at least six a week in the UK, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
ListenData
1 year ago
Python

Complete Guide to Visual ChatGPT

In this post, we will talk about how to run Visual ChatGPT in Python with Google Colab.ChatGPT has garnered huge popularity recently due to its capability of human style response.As of now, it only provides responses in text format, which means it cannot process, generate or edit images.Microsoft recently released a solution for the same to handle images.
the Guardian
1 year ago
UK politics

UK government bonds: why are yields rising and why does it matter?

Kwasi Kwarteng's tax-cutting mini-budget triggered a collapse in the pound and surge in the UK's borrowing costs.
Sterling fell at one point on Monday to its lowest level against the dollar in history.
the Guardian
1 year ago
France news

Global heating is turning white Alps green, study finds

The impact of global heating on the Alps is visible from space, with the snow-white mountains increasingly colonised by green plants, according to a study of high-resolution satellite data.
Digiday
1 year ago
Online marketing

How publishers are fighting clickbait ads and protecting audiences

For publishers, delivering an engaging user experience is paramount to ensuring loyalty and safeguarding monetization opportunities.One major revenue channel for publishers is selling programmatic ads, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to control the quality of the ads that come through programmatic channels.
BOSS Magazine
1 year ago
Marketing

6 Ways to Sustain and Grow a Small Business

Starting a business from scratch and ensuring its success while keeping your business at par with the ever-evolving business market is easier said than done.Making a suitable business plan, putting appropriate customer care services in place, and marketing your business is indispensable to a prosperous business.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC food

Dogfooding'

/dogfooding/ The practice in which tech workers use their own product consistently to see how well it works and where improvements can be made.Software engineers are hungry for excellence.Dogs are hungry for dog food.And software engineers at many companies are hungry to dogfood.In the world of tech, dogfooding means consistently using a product you built, just as a user might, to figure out what works and what needs to be fixed.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Meta Fights Yet More Propaganda (From China This Time); A Reason For Hope In SKAdNetwork Documentation | AdExchanger

Meta claims to have taken down a Chinese political influence operation that used fake accounts to agitate and misinform Americans.
DevOps.com
1 year ago
DevOps

Fairwinds Insights Latest Release Unifies DevSecOps with Additional Shift-Left Security Enhancements

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