AI slop: the new spam problem

On a Tuesday morning in August, marketing consultant Lina Sørensen opened her inbox to find five reports—“polished, professional, ready to send”—drafted by the AI assistant she uses. In minutes, she checked them, made a few tweaks, and forwarded them. A few days later, her colleague pushed back. “These…

AI Podcasts Are No Longer Sci-Fi — They’re the New Frontier for Creators

Last month, Google quietly rolled out a major upgrade to its NotebookLM tool: users can now generate AI “audio overviews” — podcast-style conversations — in more than 50 languages. For creators who have long wrestled with time, budget, and technical hurdles, that change feels like a door opening.…

Most Popular Front-End Frameworks

If you look back a decade or more, front-end development evolved from static HTML/CSS pages to small sprinkles of jQuery, then to heavier client-side apps with AngularJS, Ember, Knockout, Backbone, etc. Over time, concerns like performance, SEO, bundle size, developer experience, and maintainability pushed the landscape through several…

Codeberg hits 300,000 projects

It began as a modest dream in Berlin in late 2018. A small group of free-software advocates founded Codeberg e.V., determined to offer a noncommercial, community-governed home for open source projects. Their goal: to reduce dependence on corporate forges, to stay under European jurisdiction, and to run a…

Most Popular AI & ML Frameworks

In the early days (say the 2000s and early 2010s), machine learning was dominated by “statistical” frameworks: libraries like scikit-learn, Weka, MATLAB toolboxes, and even standalone toolkits like LIBSVM or Theano (which appeared around 2007). These tools handled regression, classification, ensemble methods, kernel methods, and so on. But…

Most Popular PHP Frameworks

PHP’s story begins humbly. In the early 1990s, Rasmus Lerdorf built a little tool in C to track visits to his personal web page. He called it Personal Home Page Tools (PHP). Over time, it evolved into PHP/FI, then into the PHP we know today, releasing version 1.0…