Jam Reaches 100 Million Monthly Listening Hours

When we launched Jam, the idea was simple: Music is better when it’s shared. Since then, listeners around the world have been queuing up tracks, enjoying them in sync, and soundtracking moments together, whether across the couch or across continents. Now, Jam sessions are hitting a high note with 100 million monthly listening hours. That...
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25 Aug 2025

How Gen Z Powers Up for Back-to-School Season on Spotify

As summer winds down and backpacks come out, Gen Z isn’t just heading back to class, they’re shaping the soundtrack for a whole new season. For Back to School 2025, Spotify has compiled a snapshot of the daily rituals and shared listening moments that define this reset. Powered by new listening data and anchored in...
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25 Aug 2025

Real-time OS examples: use cases across industries  

In sectors where precision and predictability are non-negotiable, timing is everything. Whether coordinating robotic arms on a factory floor, maintaining ultra-reliable latency in telecom networks, or ensuring an automotive braking system responds instantly, the success of these systems depends on meeting strict timing deadlines.  This is the domain of real-time computing, where the operating system […]
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Desktop & Laptop
25 Aug 2025

How I Auto Delete WordPress Form Entries (& Stay GDPR-Compliant)

Have you checked your old WordPress form submissions lately? 🤔 Forms are one of the best ways to connect with visitors. You might use them for questions, orders, surveys, or even donations. But once those entries are answered or processed, what happens to them? If… Read More »
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Tech News
25 Aug 2025

69% of organizations in Europe believe adopting open source makes them more competitive – new Linux Foundation research

New report indicates that open source adoption increases productivity, and offers opportunities for developing digital sovereignty and advancing AI projects Released in collaboration with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the Linux Foundation’s latest report, Open source as Europe’s strategic advantage: trends, barriers, and priorities for the European open source community amid regulatory and geopolitical shifts, […]
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Desktop & Laptop
25 Aug 2025

Spotify and Royel Otis Team Up on a Special ‘hickey’ Album Release Show for Top Fans

With their new album, hickey, out now, Aussie indie darlings Royel Otis decided to start the celebrations early by bringing their emotionally charged, hook-filled sound to the UK. On Thursday night, the duo played an intimate show at London’s Village Underground, exclusively for their top Spotify fans.   View this post on Instagram   A...
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23 Aug 2025

Better Control over Your Copilot Code Suggestions

Copilot code completions and suggestions in the editor speed you up in your daily programming and coding activities, at every keystroke. They help you finish the line you’re typing or anticipate your next edit, making your workflow smoother and faster. At the same time, editor is where you focus and put in the deep work. […]
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22 Aug 2025

SEO “Chunk Optimization” is Overrated

Across LinkedIn threads and AI‑SEO guides, the promise is the same: format your content into perfect “chunks” and you’ll get chosen for Google’s AI Overviews or cited in AI search results. The problem? Chunk optimization isn’t actually an SEO tactic.&#...
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Digital Marketing
21 Aug 2025

Bring Your Own Model to Chat in Visual Studio

We’re excited to announce that you can now bring your own language model into Visual Studio Chat. You can connect API keys from providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) to access a wider range of models. This makes it easy to test the latest releases, customize workflows, or run on infrastructure you control. What it unlocks […]
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Artificial Intelligence
20 Aug 2025

Search Central Live is back to Mexico City



We're very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Ciudad de Mexico
on September 25! Following successful events throughout the world earlier this year, we're
continuing our mission to helpyou enha...
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20 Aug 2025

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Now Generally Available in Visual Studio 🎉

We’re excited to announce that MCP support is now GA in Visual Studio—unlocking richer, real-time context from your entire development stack and expanding the power of Agent Mode like never before. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that makes it easy for AI agents to connect with external tools and services—think of it […]
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Artificial Intelligence
20 Aug 2025