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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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How to Pass Google Business Profile Video Verification for Service Businesses
If you run a local service business, you probably remember when getting listed on Google Maps was easy. You filled out your information, waited a week for a postcard, entered a five-digit code, and your business listing was live.
Today, the process looks very different. If you are launching a new profile, changing your business address, or updating your primary category, Google will often require a live, unedited video to confirm that your business legitimately operates in the area you
... Continue readingThe Great Deskilling: Why AI Dependence is Turning Developers into Prompt Babysitters
We’ve reached a strange, stagnant point in the evolution of the web. The marketing promised us a revolution: a world where AI would handle the "grunt work" and leave us to focus on pure, high-level creativity. But if you look at what’s actually happening on the ground, the reality is far more cynical.
We aren't seeing a new era of innovation. We’re witnessing the Great Deskilling of Web Development.
From Architect to Babysitter
Ask any developer who has leaned heavily
... Continue readingThe Three-Month Fuse: The Everest Forms Pro Attack and Why a Patched Plugin Can Still Put Websites at Risk
A critical vulnerability in Everest Forms Pro is a good example of a problem that goes beyond one WordPress plugin.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-3300, allowed an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on a WordPress site. The flaw is rated critical, with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.
The developer released version 1.9.13 on March 18, 2026, to fix the problem.
That should have been the end of it.
It wasn't.
Attackers began actively exploiting the
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Posted in Coding, Server Admin & Security
Tagged code injections, Everest Forms Pro, high maintenance, maintenance, php, plugin compatibility issues, plugin vulnerabilities, plugins, third-party plugins, vulnerability, website security, WordPress, wordpress administrator, wordpress alternative, wordpress hacked, wordpress vulnerabilities
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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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Are You “Leaking SEO” by Linking to Other Websites?
You’ve probably heard this SEO advice before:
Don’t link to other websites. You’re just giving away your SEO.
Sometimes you’ll hear this described as “SEO leakage” - the idea that when you put an external link on your website, you’re giving some of your hard-earned SEO value to another website.
And if that other website happens to be a competitor, that can sound even worse.
So should website owners be afraid to link out?
No. Not when the link is
... Continue readingWix 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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