- Feedzy Plugin Updated: This update is all about control: Smarter scheduling, more flexible AI, and richer video support. Feedzy now lets you shape your imports exactly the way you want.
- The future of remarketing? Microsoft bets on impressions, not clicks: Here’s how Microsoft’s impression-based remarketing works, how to set it up, and how it can reshape your campaign strategy.
- Google Ads expands PMax Channel Reporting to account level: Advertisers can now spot cross-campaign trends and performance patterns in PMax with a single account-level view.
- Why community is the antidote to AI overload in search marketing: In a world where AI-generated answers sound the same, community-driven trust gives brands individuality, credibility, and lasting preference.
- Google’s great clarity cleanup: 3 shifts redefining the Knowledge Graph and its AI future: Billions of entities vanished from Google’s Knowledge Graph in June 2025. Here’s how it signals a bold new direction in AI-powered search.
- Surviving the search revolution: 7 lessons from losing weight with AI: What started as a personal challenge became a glimpse into how search is changing – and how you can stay ahead of it.
- University of Central Florida took a different approach, and it’s generating 140K monthly visitors: Their secret? Content that captures students before they’ve chosen a school.
- Nvidia’s new ‘robot brain’ goes on sale for $3,499 as company targets robotics for growth: Nvidia’s Jetson AGX Thor robotics chip module is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit. The first kits will ship next month. The chips will allow customers to create robots that run generative AI models. They can also be used for self-driving cars. The Jetson Thor chips are based on Nvidia’s Blackwell graphics processor, which is also used in the company’s current generation of AI chips and chips for computer games.
- Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year: Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identities of all Android app developers, no matter where they offer their content. Apps without verification will stop working on most Android devices in the coming years. The company plans to create a streamlined Android Developer Console that devs can use if they plan to distribute apps outside of the Play Store. Google won’t check the content or functionality of apps outside of the Play Store.
- UltraRAM scaled for volume production: UltraRAM promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years. Quinas Technology and IQE have successfully developed a scalable process for producing UltraRAM. The companies are now weighing pilot production with various foundries and other collaborators.
Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV. - FastMCP: Deploy a remote MCP server with auth from a GitHub repo in 60 seconds: FastMCP Cloud is here with production-ready AI infrastructure that just works. From the team behind FastMCP, instantly deploy your MCP servers as remote, authenticated endpoints for use with Claude, Cursor, or your favorite LLM.
- Wicked Python trickery – dynamically patch a Python function’s source code at runtime: It’s possible to dynamically change a function’s source code at run time in Python using the compile and exec functions. This technique enables developers to build more flexible AI bots that can generate and execute code with access to the current environment. However, it also raises some serious security concerns.
- Prediction-Encoded Pixels: Prediction-Encoded Pixels is a format specifically designed for low-color pixel art. It uses ‘Prediction by Partial Matching, Order-2’ compression, which is able to compress packed-palette-indices smaller than GIF, PNG, and QOI. It’s two to 10 times slower than GIF/PNG/QOI, depending on the image, but it often compresses images 20% to 50% smaller than GIF/PNG, and multiple times smaller than QOI. The format is still in an experimental phase.
- Predicting our own demise: Prediction markets don’t provide better predictions about the future. The best, most efficient financial markets have standardized products, many participants, low transaction costs, and heterogeneous participants. Prediction markets lack participants with heterogeneous risk preferences. It’s also possible for participants to manipulate some outcomes. Prediction markets are bad market design, and they induce bad incentives, so we should put the genie back in the box while there’s still time.
- Inside Intel’s Tricky Dance With Trump: President Donald Trump told Lip-Bu Tan, Intel’s chief executive, to step down five months into his tenure because of his past ties to the Chinese military. Tan eventually smoothed things over with Trump, but at a cost: in return for his support, the administration converted nearly $9 billion in grants promised to Intel as part of the 2022 Chips Act into a 10% equity stake in the company. The US government is now Intel’s biggest shareholder. Tan still needs to resolve core business challenges to get Intel back on track. Without new commitments from customers, converting government grants to stock will only leave the company in a worse financial shape by diluting shareholders.
- The Simple Truth About MCPs: MCPs make your AI run other people’s prompts, and those prompts send you to other people’s code.
- Apple’s retreat from live sports: Apple is ending its ‘Friday Night Baseball’ partnership with MLB after the 2025 season due to low viewership, high costs, and fan frustration with fragmented streaming access.
- The Bubble That Knows It’s a Bubble: The sequence of ‘revolutionary technology, abundant capital, speculative frenzy, and sudden reality checks’ has played out with remarkable consistency for over 180 years.
- Ex-Employee Sentenced to 4 Years for Sabotaging Company’s Computer Network: David Lu, who worked for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed the company’s network after a corporate realignment reduced his job responsibilities and restricted his access to certain servers.
- Pamela Anderson is now selling her very own limited-edition line of spicy pickles, “Pamela’s Pickles”, in collaboration with a Los Angeles lifestyle brand. All proceeds from the pickles will be donated to the California Wildlife Center, which cares for over 4k wild animals annually.
- Duolingo’s Zaria Parvez joins DoorDash.
- Instagram adds Reels linking for multipart content.
- YouTube gets caught using “machine learning” to tweak Shorts after they go live.
- New Community-Driven WordPress-opedia Launches: WordPress now officially has a wiki. Michelle Frechette and Corey Mass have launched the WP Wiki Project, a shiny new community-driven encyclopedia for all things WordPress.
- Hosting Defenses? More Like Swiss Cheese: A new study by Patchstack revealed that relying on standard “secure WordPress hosting” these days is about as effective as trying to fend off armed robbers with a pool noodle. They uncovered that a whopping 87.8% of plugin exploits breezed past hosting defenses and virtual patching tools before being stopped at the application layer.
- Patchstack’s 2025 vulnerability report identified 6,700 new vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem in just six months, and what’s really spooky is that 41% of them are exploitable in real-life attacks.
- According to a Harvard Business School study, if Open Source suddenly disappeared, it would cost the world $8.8 trillion.
- Workers eschew AI policies at work: Employees of all levels are increasing security risks by misusing AI tools and disregarding protocols, according to a CalypsoAI survey.
- Where AI Gets Its Facts: Reddit has become a key reference source for AI responses.
- xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI for Alleged Market Collusion: Elon’s taking OpenAI to court once again.
- Meta Stands To Benefit From White House Opposition to the EU DSA: Zuckerberg looks set to be rewarded for aligning with Trump.
- YouTube Provides Tips on How To Come up With Video Ideas: Some helpful pointers for your YouTube clips.
- Meta Partners With Midjourney To Improve Visual Generation Elements: The partnership could give Meta’s visual AI tools a boost.
- BetMGM’s CMO on how its brand repositioning unites gaming, entertainment: To separate from the pack, the sports-betting platform is launching a Las Vegas-inspired brand refresh with ads starring Jon Hamm.
- Little Caesars dials up NFL marketing with deals, co-branded campaign: The pizza chain is also flexing partnerships with football stars like Saquon Barkley for its fourth year as the Official Pizza Sponsor of the league.
- H&R Block doubles down on social marketing amid modernization push: The tax-preparation firm is uniting its social creative and media duties under VaynerMedia, a move it says will enable more agility and performance.
- Applebee’s appoints marketing, operating chiefs: Following a strong Q2, Dine Brands will bring on Michelle Chin as CMO and Jerrold Wong as COO to extend the chain’s recent successes.
- August was big: Google tested AI-organized search pages; Instagram rolled out powerful follower insights; TikTok launched a post-click performance tool and And Reddit started looking more like a search engine than a forum.
TLDR: Social Media Headlines – 26 August 2025
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