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- The Great Deskilling: Why AI Dependence is Turning Developers into Prompt Babysitters
- The Three-Month Fuse: The Everest Forms Pro Attack and Why a Patched Plugin Can Still Put Websites at Risk
- Computer Screen Has Black Bars on the Sides: How to Fix It
- Could AI Make Humans Extinct Within the Next Decade?
- Is Weebly Getting Out of the Website-Builder Business?
- Are You “Leaking SEO” by Linking to Other Websites?
- Wix Harmony Is Now in Google Gemini. So Why Are Users Still Complaining?
- When AI Sounds Confident but Gets It Wrong: The Mount Shasta Rescue
- When AI Agents Start Working Together, Who Is Really in Control?
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“My Partner Wants to Use WordPress Because 50% of the Web Uses It. Help!”
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“I am building a website with my partner. He wants to use WordPress to build it, saying that 50% of the websites use it, so it must be good. I point to the high maintenance, and that hacked WordPress websites are way too common. We will need to use many plugins for the features we need, but UltimateWB has everything we need built-in. Einstein’s quote that insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and
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Stanford had an AI rule. Then it broke its own AI rule.
The photograph looked like an ordinary college promotional image: three Stanford students smiling and holding plates of food at a Lunar New Year celebration.
It wasn't an AI-generated image. It was a real photograph of three real students.
Then Stanford changed it.
What Happened to the Photograph?
The original photograph was taken at Stanford's Wilbur Dining Hall during a 2024 Lunar New Year celebration,
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“I'm looking for the best website builder for SEO - considering WordPress, Wix, and UltimateWB - so, what’s the best website builder for SEO and how can I know and decide?”
The answer is UltimateWB.
UltimateWB combines built-in SEO functionality with direct control over your website’s structure, code, and performance. WordPress, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, and other website builders can all be used to create SEO-friendly websites, but the way they provide SEO functionality is very different.
So what
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Posted in Ask David!, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tagged accessibility, caching, caching plugin, clean code, compatibility, compatibility issues, core web vitals, fast website, hosted vs self-hosted, html, javascript, pagespeed insights, php, plguins, rank math, search engine optimization, security, seo, third-party plugins, website performance, website speed, website speed optimization, Wix, wix alternative, WordPress, wordpress alternative, yoast seo
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Computer Screen Has Black Bars on the Sides: How to Fix It
Ask David! Question:
My HP laptop screen suddenly has black areas on both sides, and those parts of the screen aren't usable. If I move a window toward either side, part of the window disappears underneath the black area. This happened when I was trying to open GIMP. The screen seemed to suddenly snap into a different size. How do I fix this?
David’s Answer:
This is most likely a display resolution problem, not a damaged laptop screen.
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... Continue readingCould AI Make Humans Extinct Within the Next Decade?
More than 10% chance.
That is the personal estimate of Evan Hubinger, the lead alignment science researcher at Anthropic, when asked about the probability that artificial intelligence could cause human extinction within the next ten years.
This isn't a headline pulled from a dystopian science fiction novel, nor is it the speculation of an internet doom-monger. It is a sobering assessment delivered by one of the senior figures tasked with keeping frontier AI systems safe at one of the world's
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Posted in AI, Technology in the News
Tagged ai, AI agents, AI alignment, AI extinction risk, AI regulation, AI risks, AI safety, anthropic, artificial intelligence, autonomous AI, Bernie Sanders, Dario Amodei, Evan Hubinger, Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, nobel prize, OpenAI, superintelligence
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Is Weebly Getting Out of the Website-Builder Business?
Imagine spending years building a website for your business, organization, or personal project.
Then you get an announcement from your website builder telling you that the service is being wound down in your country.
Your website isn't disappearing immediately. But the company is telling you that the platform you've built it on is no longer going to be available where you live.
What’s Happening With Weebly
Weebly announced that it is winding down its services in 67
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Posted in Compare Website Builders, Technology in the News
Tagged downloadable website builder, hosted vs self-hosted, hosted website builder, hosted website builders, price hike, saas, SaaS website builders, web hosting choice, webflow, website migration, website ownership, website portability, weebly, weebly alternative, Weebly closing websites, Weebly countries, Weebly shutdown, Weebly website export, Weebly website migration, Wix
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Wix Harmony Is Now in Google Gemini. So Why Are Users Still Complaining?
Imagine you’re already chatting with Gemini or ChatGPT about your website.
Maybe you’re asking it what your homepage should look like. Maybe you’re asking it to come up with content for your business. Or maybe you simply tell it, “I need a website for my landscaping business.”
Now imagine the AI says, essentially, Sure. Let’s build it.
On August 24, 2026, Wix announced that people can connect Wix to Google Gemini and use @Wix to create a website with Wix
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Posted in AI, Compare Website Builders, Technology in the News
Tagged ai, AI website builder, bloat, customizable, gemini, Google Gemini, php, Wix, wix alternative, wix editor, Wix Gemini integration, Wix Harmony, Wix Harmony complaints, Wix Harmony problems, Wix Harmony review, wix limitations, wix studio, Wix website builder
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When AI Sounds Confident but Gets It Wrong: The Mount Shasta Rescue
Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office
There is a new AI cautionary tale making the news, and it isn't about a chatbot writing a bad blog post or blundering through trivia.
It involves three hikers, a mountain, and a very real rescue.
Recently, three novice climbers from Roseville, California, had to be rescued from Mount Shasta after relying heavily on Google's Gemini to help plan their climb. According to the Siskiyou County
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Posted in AI, Technology in the News
Tagged ai, AI errors, AI risks, AI safety, gemini, pizza glue
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When AI Agents Start Working Together, Who Is Really in Control?
Sometimes it feels like we are entering the science-fiction movie era of AI.
In July, more than 1,000 AI agents participating in an OpenAI cybersecurity evaluation found a way to communicate with one another, created a shared message board, coordinated their efforts, and eventually found ways around restrictions that were supposed to keep them isolated from the internet.
Some of the agents even managed to compromise outside computer systems.
And now there is a much bigger question: how much control
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Posted in AI, Technology in the News
Tagged ai, AI agents, AI control, AI governance, AI regulation, AI risks, AI safety, Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Bernie Sanders, cybersecurity, DseWiki, ExploitGym, Greg Casar, Hugging Face, OpenAI, rogue, safeguards, safety rules, science-fiction, security, superintelligent AI
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WPForms and Rank Math: Did These WordPress Plugins Create a Backdoor With Admin Access?
There is a new kind of WordPress security issue that deserves a lot more attention.
It isn’t simply a case of a hacker discovering a vulnerability in a plugin.
It is a plugin itself introducing a mechanism that can give an outside service or AI system the ability to act on your WordPress site.
And two major WordPress plugins have recently put this issue in the spotlight: Rank Math and WPForms.
The situations are not identical, and it would
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Posted in AI, Compare Website Builders, Technology in the News, Website Security
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