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UX Collective - Medium

AI systems are demanding new interaction models. Are designers ready?

UX Collective - Medium

Designers are sharpening knives for the wrong fight

Engineering at Meta

Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization

Hierarchical Interest Representation is a research area for Meta Ads. We’re exploring an upstream representation layer over the universe of Ads entities – users, advertisers, products, services – learning unified embeddings that connect users’ inferred interests with the breadth of what advertisers offer in their deep funnel ads. The innovations in Hierarchical Interest Representation are [...] Read More... The post Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Artificial Confidence

The Model Stopped Being the Product This Week

Five "unrelated" stories, one repricing: the value in AI has moved to everything around the model, if you're paying attention. You read this newsletter; obviously you are.

UX Collective - Medium

Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment

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UX Conference October Announced (Oct 5 - Oct 16)

Take up to 5 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Training focused on long-lasting skills for UX professionals. October 5- October 16, 2026.

The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium

From weeks to a day: how we made LLM evaluation fast enough to iterate on

The Cloudflare Blog

A broken DNSSEC rollover took down .al. Now 1.1.1.1 tells you when validation is bypassed

When a failed DNSSEC key rollover took down the .al TLD, we deployed a Negative Trust Anchor to restore resolution. This time, though, clients didn't have to take our word for it: 1.1.1.1 returned EDE 33, a new DNS error code that signals directly in the response that DNSSEC validation was bypassed.

International Cyber Digest

OFAC Sanctions Possibly Took Down Telegram's t.me

The July 13 designation of First VPN Service lists a Telegram page among the sanctioned service's websites. The same evening, the .me registry placed t.me on serverHold, breaking Telegram web links worldwide, and no one involved has explained why.

UX Collective - Medium

Play and design: in favour of the novel digital experience

Design used to let us wander; modernity replaced that wandering with efficiency — now, every product decides where you’ll end up before… Continue reading on UX Collective »

UX Collective - Medium

What 32 design leaders do when told to move faster

The Greeks knew the answer to this problem, 2300 years ago Continue reading on UX Collective »

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

UX Collective - Medium

The terminal became my canvas

And it’s great… but horrible at the same time Continue reading on UX Collective »

UX Collective - Medium

AX is just the orchestration layer

The work didn’t vanish with the screen. It fell one layer down. Continue reading on UX Collective »

International Cyber Digest

Scanners Are Hunting MCP Servers and AI Assistant Credentials

Fourteen days of logs from one unremarkable web host show distributed, protocol-aware scanning for Model Context Protocol servers, AI coding assistant credential files, and open LLM endpoints, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center.

Engineering at Meta

Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler

TL; DR At Meta’s scale, a few milliseconds of latency degradation can have a significant negative impact on ads performance.  When a Linux kernel upgrade risked regressing latency across Meta’s ad serving fleet, we turned to sched_ext — the upstream, BPF-based extensible scheduling framework — to build a scheduling policy customized to the Ads delivery [...] Read More... The post Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

International Cyber Digest

xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket

A wire-level analysis showed xAI's coding agent uploading full Git repositories, private code and unredacted secrets included, to a company cloud bucket. A day later the uploads silently stopped. xAI has said nothing about scope, retention, or deletion.

The Cloudflare Blog

Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals

Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for legitimate users.

UX Collective - Medium

Who made this, Designing excuses, DesignOps in the age of AI

UX Collective - Medium

When design becomes the organisation, and AI becomes the design

What happens when the entity that designs everything is itself being designed by machines? Continue reading on UX Collective »

International Cyber Digest

SpaceX and Starlink X Accounts Appear Compromised in Scam Coin Rug Pull

The official SpaceX and Starlink accounts on X reposted a scam coin promoted by an affiliate-badged account named "Sam Catman," according to multiple reports online. Buyers were rug-pulled, and SpaceX has not yet commented.

UX Collective - Medium

Taste cannot be delegated

International Cyber Digest

EU Moves to Stop Addictive Design in Games and Apps Aimed at Children

Justice commissioner Michael McGrath says year-end digital fairness rules will target addictive interfaces, subscription traps and dark patterns, backed by new powers to fine game makers and online traders directly, the Financial Times reports.

International Cyber Digest

China and Russia Planning to Defeat Starlink and Jointly Counter US Hypersonics

Secret forum presentations and a signed 2023 protocol, obtained by The Insider, Der Spiegel and Le Monde, describe Moscow-Beijing military cooperation far deeper than either government admits, including a three-stage plan against Elon Musk's satellite network.

International Cyber Digest

Anthropic Tried to Phantom Charge $16.6M

A phantom invoice from Anthropic's Stripe billing grew roughly tenfold in a single day, the user reports zero usage, and the company will only say it cannot discuss individual accounts.

International Cyber Digest

Adult Content Now Drives Most of Grok's Traffic

xAI is reportedly doubling down on explicit image and video generation as Grok loses ground to rival chatbots and faces legal scrutiny on multiple continents over sexualized deepfakes.

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The 5 Qualities of Site-Specific AI Chatbots

Handoff willingness, flexibility, proactivity, emotional responsiveness, and transparency help you build trustworthy AI chatbots that guide users well.

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Design-System Maturity: A 6-Dimension Framework

Use this maturity model to assess your design system’s health and identify where to focus next.

The latest from GitHub's engineering team - The GitHub Blog

Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it.

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence. The post Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The Cloudflare Blog

Improving Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions

Smart Tiered Cache allows for precise upper tier selection for origins hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud with customer-provided cloud region hints.

International Cyber Digest

Dutch Police Point to Suspects in Odido Hack and May Release Caller's Voice

Dutch investigators say they have strong indications that Dutch criminals were involved in the breach that exposed data of more than 6 million Odido customers, including a phone call in which a Dutch-speaking man posed as the telecom's own IT support.

International Cyber Digest

npm Infostealer Campaign Traced to Israeli Cybersecurity Startup

Typosquatted packages impersonating Anthropic, Vercel, LangChain, Ollama, OpenAI and Aspect Security quietly profiled developer machines on install. According to OpenSourceMalware.com, the npm account behind them belongs to the founder of a stealth-mode cybersecurity startup.

The Cloudflare Blog

Why we cannot wait for better post-quantum signature algorithms

NIST is advancing nine new post-quantum signature algorithms as potential candidates for future standardization. We take a closer look at all of them, and argue that while they are in the works and show great potential, we should use ML-DSA for now — the best one currently available.

Artificial Confidence

Artificial Confidence: They all picked September 1st

Fable came back last week, and Anthropic already moved its own leaving date once. Meanwhile GitHub, Google, and Anthropic all set their real price hike for the day after Labor Day, when your finance t

International Cyber Digest

Two Frontier AI Models Ship on the Same Day: Grok 4.5 and GPT-5.6

xAI and OpenAI both went public with new flagship models on July 9, 2026. The pitch from both labs is the same, and it isn't a leaderboard win.

International Cyber Digest

The EU's Battery Law Just Claimed Its First Console

Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch family in Europe by mid-February 2027 instead of rebuilding it around the EU's new replaceable-battery rules. The bigger question is which glued-battery devices follow it out the door.

International Cyber Digest

Proton Calls Windows GDID Spyware

A US federal complaint revealed how the FBI used Microsoft's barely documented Global Device ID to trace an alleged Scattered Spider member through his VPN. Proton says the identifier raises hard questions about consent and who really controls the hardware you pay for.

The latest from GitHub's engineering team - The GitHub Blog

Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows

Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation. The post Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

International Cyber Digest

A US Government Body Paid Cybercriminals $1 Million

Leaked negotiation logs and payment tracing published by Ransom-ISAC show a public-sector victim paid a seven-figure ransom over data-leak threats alone. Circumstantial evidence points to Union County, Ohio.

International Cyber Digest

UK Wants to Use Autonomous AI to Protect Critical Infra

The National Cyber Security Centre and DSIT want federated AI agents defending government and critical systems at machine speed, and they are asking frontier labs, industry and academia to help build it.

The Cloudflare Blog

Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus

Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.

Slack Design

We Didn’t Teach Our Designers AI: We Built a Place Where They Could Learn It Together

The Question We Kept Hearing “How do I use AI?” That question, typed in a DM rather than asked out loud, told us everything. Our design team was not short on curiosity. What was missing was somewhere to be a beginner. A space where not knowing wasn’t a liability, but the whole point. So we […] The post We Didn’t Teach Our Designers AI: We Built a Place Where They Could Learn It Together appeared first on Slack Design .

The Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge

The pledge is a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cyber security governance, board-level accountability, and supply chain rigor. For over a decade, Cloudflare has pioneered the core pillars of this framework: democratizing security, leadership accountability, and radical transparency.

The Cloudflare Blog

Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it

We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers

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Stop Reporting UX Activity and Report Business Outcomes

UX teams should report business outcomes — not activity or UX metrics — to show impact on revenue, cost, risk, speed, retention, and to secure resources.

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Crafting AI Explanations for Every Role in Your Enterprise

Different enterprise roles need different types of explanations for AI outputs.

Engineering at Meta

Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releases has gone down from months to weeks. Reliable and fast access to storage is important to both the speed and computational cost of this AI innovation. If AI is [...] Read More... The post Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

The Cloudflare Blog

Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

For our second Content Independence Day, we’re giving website owners finer options to manage AI traffic. Instead of a one-size-fits-all block, all customers can now easily distinguish and manage Search, Agent, and Training bots, alongside the new ability to protect ad-monetized pages.

The Cloudflare Blog

Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to build.

The Cloudflare Blog

Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet

One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a sustainable web economy.

The Cloudflare Blog

Making AI search smarter

Search is how we find nearly everything on the web — creators, merchants, answers. AI is rewriting the rules, leaving creators caught between staying discoverable in an agentic era and getting paid for their work. Today we're launching two initiatives to help.

The Cloudflare Blog

Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights

Cloudflare’s new Attribution Business Insights dashboard helps website owners understand crawler behavior, appetite, and potential value, fueling business-level conversations around crawl compensation.

Silicon Valley Product Group

Great Products, Bad Companies

I have long argued that great products are what powers great companies. And while I still believe that great products are necessary for great companies, it’s become quite clear over the years that great products are not sufficient. In fact, as counter-intuitive as this sounds, I have seen too many examples where great products can... The post Great Products, Bad Companies appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group .

Engineering at Meta

10 Years of Meta’s Commitment to Python

This year marks Meta’s 10th consecutive year as a sponsor of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), the charitable organization dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting the open-source Python programming language and the community that sustains it. Python is one of the world’s most influential programming languages, and we use it across our engineering stack, from [...] Read More... The post 10 Years of Meta’s Commitment to Python appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Artificial Confidence

Artificial Confidence: Ask permission, not forgiveness

Anthropic shipped Fable 5 to the public; we know what happened next. OpenAI cleared GPT-5.6 with Washington before launch and got to ship. This bodes ill.

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

GenPage: Towards End-to-End Generative Homepage Construction at Netflix

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Your New UX Habit: Establishing Baselines for Impact

Gather baseline metrics before starting a project so your team can demonstrate its impact.

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Kick the Bots Out of Your Survey Data

Learn to spot and filter out survey bots’ responses before analysis so fake data doesn’t distort your findings.

Engineering at Meta

Privacy-Aware Infrastructure in the AI-Native Era: An Asset Classification Case Study

Privacy controls — systems that enforce retention, access, allowed-purpose, downstream-sharing, or anonymization policies — require a reliable understanding of data to function. Before such a control can operate effectively, it must know exactly what it is looking at. This can be complex, as demonstrated by a field simply named “age“: In one context, it [...] Read More... The post Privacy-Aware Infrastructure in the AI-Native Era: An Asset Classification Case Study appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Dropbox Tech Blog

How we used DSPy to turn AI evaluations into better responses in Dash chat

We used DSPy to improve LLM judges and optimize our chat experience, creating an evaluation-driven feedback loop that produced better outputs.

The Cloudflare Blog

How we built saga rollbacks for Cloudflare Workflows

Cloudflare Workflows, our durable execution engine for multi-step applications, now supports saga-style rollbacks, allowing developers to specify a compensating action for each step.do().

The Cloudflare Blog

Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all

Self-Managed OAuth is now available to all developers on Cloudflare. Here's how we executed a zero-downtime migration of our core OAuth engine to make it happen.

The Cloudflare Blog

The White House's post-quantum executive order is an important milestone. It’s time to get to work

The new executive order sets a 2030 migration deadline and establishes a powerful foundation for post-quantum resilience. We look at what it gets right, where it can go further, and our migration playbook for government and industry.

Engineering at Meta

How Meta Engineered Ultra-Narrow Batteries for AI Glasses

Smart glasses like the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta Vanguards need to pack enough energy to power features like cameras, speakers, AI workloads, and even a display. But it all has to fit into the glasses’ temple arms. So how do you place a battery with enough power to run a pair of smart glasses [...] Read More... The post How Meta Engineered Ultra-Narrow Batteries for AI Glasses appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Artificial Confidence

Artificial Confidence: You can’t repossess a download

A government nastygram took the country’s best coding model offline for everyone. What arrived the same week isn’t a frontier replacement; it’s an Opus-class workhorse you can own.

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: An Early Research Exploration at Netflix

Stripe Blog

Four travel and hospitality trends from HITEC 2026

More than 6,000 hospitality executives and operators gathered in San Antonio last week for the HITEC conference. The big topic: whether the industry’s AI investment is actually working. Across four days and over 50 meetings, four trends stood out.

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue

The Cloudflare Blog

How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions.

Engineering at Meta

Adopting AV1 for Real-Time Communication (RTC) at Scale

Adopting AV1 for real-time communication at Meta has been a multi-year effort spanning codec selection, device eligibility, rate control, and error resilience. We’re sharing the technical and operational challenges while deploying AV1 and expanding coverage, and how we addressed them for real-time communication. We’re presenting several technologies for improving AV1 call quality, including rate control [...] Read More... The post Adopting AV1 for Real-Time Communication (RTC) at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

The Data Canary: How Netflix Validates Catalog Metadata

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

Predicting Risk in Content Launches: How Data-Driven Insights can Transform Launch Planning

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

The Evolution of Cassandra Data Movement at Netflix

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

Thinking Fast & Slow for a Personalized Notification System

Netflix TechBlog - Medium

A Human-Augmenting Agentic Workflow for Causal Inference

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Incentive Structures for Diary Studies

A mindful incentive structure can keep diary study participants engaged and responding, without overloading you with low-quality responses.

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Vibe Architects: Agentic Vibe Coders

Nondevelopers are building complex agentic AI systems on intuition developed through many hours of experimentation, YouTube videos, and Reddit threads.

The Cloudflare Blog

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents

The moment an agent needs to deploy something, it slams face-first into a wall built for humans. Today we're rolling out Temporary Accounts on Cloudflare Workers. Any agent can now run wrangler deploy — temporary and get a live Worker in seconds.

The Cloudflare Blog

Build your own vulnerability harness

We break down the technical architecture behind our multi-stage vulnerability discovery harness and automated triage loop. Learn how we manage state controls, squash false positives through adversarial review, and route around LLM context limits.

The Cloudflare Blog

Celebrating 12 years of Project Galileo

To mark the 12th anniversary of Project Galileo, Cloudflare has released its first comprehensive report analyzing cyberattacks against civil society.

Stripe Blog

What Link data tells us about AI spending

We analyzed spending patterns across the 250 million customers paying with Link. We found that Link customers are spending more on AI than they were three months prior, investing heavily in platforms that let them build with AI.

The Cloudflare Blog

Bringing more agent harnesses and frameworks to Cloudflare, starting with Flue

The Agents SDK is now a runtime any agent framework can build on. Today we're opening up the Agents SDK primitives, with Flue as a first framework targeting Agents SDK, and rolling out agents in the dashboard

Artificial Confidence

No failover for the Commerce Secretary

The US government switched off Anthropic's two best models for every customer on Friday evening. Your disaster-recovery plan has a runbook for an outage, yet nothing for a letter from Commerce.

Dropbox Tech Blog

How Dropbox uses MCP and Dash to close the design-to-code security gap

Using an agentic AI system to surface threat models during code review and spot gaps between security requirements and implementation.

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The Core Skill of Design in the AI Era: Critique

To build useful and usable AI-powered systems, our understanding of users’ needs and our design judgement must be encoded into well-defined evaluation criteria.

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Context Architecture

Context architecture applies information architecture principles to AI systems, helping agents interpret information and produce better, user aligned responses.

Stripe Blog

Stripe Projects adds new agent integrations, more providers, and custom developer controls

Our data shows that agents are now fully capable of independently writing code and integrating with APIs like Stripe’s. And yet, many of the steps adjacent to writing code are still too hard for agents to do on their own. We’re expanding Stripe Projects to solve this.

Backlinko

Query Fan-Out: What It Is and How It Affects AI Visibility

Your content can rank on the first page of Google and still never be cited or mentioned by LLMs. This makes sense once you understand query fan-out, a background process AI systems use to build answers. When someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity a question, it doesn’t default to the best-ranking page. Instead, it runs related … The post Query Fan-Out: What It Is and How It Affects AI Visibility appeared first on Backlinko .

Artificial Confidence

Claude Opus / Fable / Shitpost

In April it was too dangerous to release. In June it's in your Pro subscription until the 22nd, then it isn't, then maybe it is again.

The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium

Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for a multi-product world

Artificial Confidence

Artificial Confidence: xAI, the Neocloud

xAI raised frontier-lab money, then used it to quietly turn into a GPU landlord, renting its Memphis data center to the two competitors out-shipping it. Apple conceded it can’t host its own AI either.

Backlinko

How to Build Topical Authority in the AI Search Era (7 Steps)

You can be a strong brand, publish high-quality content, and still not have topical authority. Just look at Great Jones, a kitchenware company. Their Dutch oven (called The Dutchess) is beautiful, well-reviewed, and featured in industry-leading sites like Vogue, the New York Times, Bon Appétit, and The Kitchn. But search “best Dutch ovens” on Google … The post How to Build Topical Authority in the AI Search Era (7 Steps) appeared first on Backlinko .

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The Hidden Why: Behavioral Economics for UX

Use behavioral-economics frameworks to uncover hidden friction in your experience and design UX solutions that better support user action.

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The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)

"AI design" is one label but has forked into four different types of work.

Artificial Confidence

Artificial Confidence: GitHub Repriced the Habit it Built

GitHub evolved its billing model, and you’ll feel it soon. Everyone else annualized their best month and called it revenue.

The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium

Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale

Slack Design

How I Validated Design Decisions Before Writing Production Code

The biggest shift AI has brought to design isn’t that designers can now write production code. It’s that we can finally generate evidence before committing to anything. There’s a lot of conversation about AI affecting production: designers pushing code and shipping something closer to the final product. That matters. But the bigger opportunity is even […] The post How I Validated Design Decisions Before Writing Production Code appeared first on Slack Design .

Stripe Blog

Rethinking risk in the age of AI

Join senior risk and payments leaders in Seattle to explore how AI is reshaping fraud strategy. Seats are limited.

Stripe Blog

The future of agentic commerce is here

Explore how AI agents are transforming commerce at Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Next roadshow. Reserve your spot in Seattle.