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How To Create Your Instagram Content Plan (With Free Template)
Are your Instagram posts struggling to gain traction? With over 2 billion monthly active users, standing out on the platform requires strategy and content planning. A content plan is an essential blueprint to help you keep your posts aligned with your strategy and your overall marketing goals. Posting without a plan can just be a…
Benchmarking GPT-5 on Real-World Code Reviews with the PR Benchmark
GPT-5 is now available in Qodo’s platform for all free and paid users. Get started today. At Qodo, we believe benchmarks should reflect how developers actually work. That’s why we built the PR Benchmark—a benchmark designed to assess how well language models handle tasks like code review, suggesting improvements, and understanding developer…
Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved with haste to get engineers to test and deploy DeepSeek’s R1 model on Azure AI Foundry. It was an unusually quick turnaround for a new model on Azure that also set a new bar for success. A few months later, Nadella then pushed to onboard xAI’s Grok…
Grok Imagine’s ‘Spicy’ mode lacks basic guardrails for sexual deepfakes
Updated on Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 11:00 a.m. ET — Other outlets have also reported that Grok Imagine will readily produce sexual deepfakes. The Verge reported on Tuesday that the Grok Imagine “Spicy” setting produced nude deepfakes of Taylor Swift, unprompted. This isn’t Elon Musk or X’s first controversy involving Taylor Swift deepfakes; in January 2024,…
Skeleton Screens Are Just Gray Lies We Tell Ourselves
It’s 2025. Your site loads, your API chokes for a split second, and boom: shimmering gray boxes cascade across the screen like a UX prayer. We call it skeleton loading. Users call it “more of the same.” And somewhere deep down, you know what it really is. Skeleton screens (loading screens) have become the digital…
Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming | CSS-Tricks
As a front-end developer, I’ve been pretty curious about how other people code up their websites. So I tend to poke my head into design systems whenever I find one. Then, late last year, a conversation with Geoff Graham set me off thinking even deeper about theming websites. (If you don’t know that dude, he’s…
Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers might be for you. The wallpapers are designed with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free! Enjoy! Everybody loves a beautiful wallpaper to freshen up their desktops and home screens, right? To cater for…
5 Ways To Prove The Real Value Of SEO In The AI Era
As SEO evolves with AI optimization, generative engine optimization, and answer engine optimization, brands and marketers must rethink their SEO strategies to stay competitive. Instead of focusing solely on traditional SEO strategies and tactics, you need to be visible in AI-powered search and answer engines. Showing the value of SEO in this new world means…
tokens are getting more expensive
note: i’m kinda tired of the “levered beta” metaphor, i have one more topic i want to cover on this topic related to cognition, and then i’ll go back to my normal writing imagine you start a company knowing that consumers won’t pay more than $20/month. fine, you think, classic vc playbook – charge at…
The enforcer that could break up Apple and Google is facing upheaval
The sudden firing of two high-ranking antitrust officials this week is signaling upheaval at an agency responsible for arguing some of the biggest tech monopoly cases in decades. Two top deputies to Department of Justice Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater were fired earlier this week for what a DOJ official would only explain as “insubordination”…