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Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

Smashing Magazine

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Michelle Barker.

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Tech Transforms podcast: A reporter’s take on AI, data privacy, ChatGPT, and TikTok

Dynatrace

Krishan also shares the darker side of the application, including the lack of established fact-checking and the use of personal information scraped from the internet without individuals’ consent. We also chat about disinformation campaigns on social media platforms and the addictive nature of social media.

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Digital Experience Testing: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide

DZone

Websites, mobile apps, e-commerce sites, social media content, in-store kiosks, and smart devices all provide a digital experience to customers, partners, and employees and give them a way to interact with a company or brand.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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Dynatrace introduces automatic vulnerability management for PHP

Dynatrace

The open-source scripting language PHP is used by over 78% of all websites that use a server-side programming language. PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. Dynatrace news. How to get started.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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How Dynatrace uses Dynatrace to combat the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell)

Dynatrace

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2.