Author: Awais

This article was co-authored by Reya Vir and Rahul Vir. has fundamentally changed in the GenAI era. With the ubiquity of vibe coding tools and agent-first IDEs like Google’s Antigravity, developing new applications has never been faster. Further, the powerful concepts inspired by viral open-source frameworks like OpenClaw are enabling the creation of autonomous systems. We can drop agents into secure Harnesses, provide them with executable Python Skills, and define their System Personas in simple Markdown files. We use the recursive Agentic Loop (Observe-Think-Act) for execution, set up headless Gateways to connect them via chat apps, and rely on Molt…

There is a pervasive narrative doing the rounds in the publishing industry called “Google Zero.” This narrative, embraced by many industry leaders, poses that traffic from Google – Search and Discover – will decline and eventually become negligible. This Google Zero narrative is entirely false, and extremely dangerous. And I’m going to explain why. When the concept of “Google Zero” first began to emerge, I thought it could be a useful way to frame the strategic approaches publishers should consider when optimizing for Google. But it’s taken on an entirely different meaning, one that is actively dangerous and downright false.…

[Submitted on 2 Jul 2025 (v1), last revised 3 Mar 2026 (this version, v3)] View a PDF of the paper titled LEDOM: Reverse Language Model, by Xunjian Yin and 8 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Autoregressive language models are trained exclusively left-to-right. We explore the complementary factorization, training right-to-left at scale, and ask what reasoning patterns emerge when a model conditions on future context to predict the past. We train LEDOM, an open-source purely reverse autoregressive language model (2B/7B parameters, 435B tokens), and find it develops capabilities distinct from forward models, including abductive inference, question synthesis, and natural resolution…

What do conversion rate optimization (CRO) and findability look like for an AI agent versus a human, and how different do your strategies really need to be? More and more marketers are embracing the agentic web, and discovery increasingly happens through AI-powered experiences. That raises a fair question: what does CRO and findability look like for an AI agent compared with a human? Several considerations matter, but the core takeaway is clear: serving people supports AI findability. AI systems are designed to surface useful, grounded information for people. Technical mechanics still matter, but you don’t need entirely different strategies to…

Yoast announced a new Schema Aggregation feature that locates your site’s entire structured data in one location. The integration enables WordPress sites that use Yoast’s plugin to make website content more readable and usable to AI systems. Coherent Entity Disambiguation The new Schema Aggregation feature makes relationships between entities on a site easier for AI systems to understand. Instead of returning structured data separately on each page, the schemamap connects entities across the site and removes duplicate records. Authors remain linked to the articles they publish, and organizations remain linked to their content and products. This structure allows AI systems…

As anyone knows who’s been on the receiving end of one of my alarmingly detailed travel itineraries, I strongly believe in doing my homework. So though I think Zapier is the best automation platform out there (I used it years before I even worked here), I still want you to have all the facts before making a decision on the right automation platform for you.It’s important to look beyond feature lists and landing page promises when choosing an automation tool. You need to know what it’s actually like to build and scale on these platforms. Who are they for? Where…

Snapchat analytics can often feel like a black box. The app moves fast, the content is ephemeral and the performance dashboards don’t feel as intuitive as other social media analytics. Still, if you know where to look, the data tells useful stories about what holds attention and what drives Snapchatters to act. More importantly, it’s how you read that data that shapes the strategic decisions you make on the app. This guide breaks down how Snapchat analytics work, why they matter and how to use them to turn disappearing Snaps into lasting brand growth. What Snapchat analytics are and why…

[Submitted on 27 Apr 2025 (v1), last revised 3 Mar 2026 (this version, v5)] Authors:Weidi Luo, Tianyu Lu, Qiming Zhang, Xiaogeng Liu, Bin Hu, Yue Zhao, Jieyu Zhao, Song Gao, Patrick McDaniel, Zhen Xiang, Chaowei Xiao View a PDF of the paper titled Doxing via the Lens: Revealing Location-related Privacy Leakage on Multi-modal Large Reasoning Models, by Weidi Luo and 10 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Recent advances in multi-modal large reasoning models (MLRMs) have shown significant ability to interpret complex visual content. While these models enable impressive reasoning capabilities, they also introduce novel and underexplored privacy risks. In…

Every year, Google suspends tens of millions of Google Ads accounts for advertising policy violations. One specific policy area that confuses many legitimate advertisers is Google’s “three-strikes” system. Essentially, if Google decides your account has repeatedly violated any of 15 specific Google advertising policies, you’re at risk for temporary (and potentially permanent) suspension of your Google Ads account. To help you prevent a single policy issue from snowballing into a full account suspension, here’s how Google’s three-strike system works and what you should do at every stage to keep your ads running. Case study: Appealing a Google Ads strike Over…

An advisory was published about a high-severity vulnerability discovered in the Page Builder by SiteOrigin WordPress plugin, which is installed on more than 500,000 websites. This is the third vulnerability discovered in the SiteOrigin Page Builder in 2026. The vulnerability is rated 8.8 on the CVSS severity scale. What The Plugin Does Page Builder by SiteOrigin is a drag-and-drop layout builder for WordPress. It allows site owners to create responsive, column-based page designs using standard WordPress widgets. Users can build pages visually without writing code. Because it works with most themes and does not require coding knowledge, it is widely…