How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy — Smashing Magazine

Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation. Your senior management is excited about AI. They’ve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. They’re convinced that AI will transform your organization, boost productivity, and give you a competitive […]

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Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls

Tom’s Hardware Premium Roadmaps (Image credit: Future) When U.S. lawmakers tightened export controls on advanced AI processors, their goal was straightforward enough: slow China’s access to cutting-edge compute hardware by restricting direct sales of the most capable GPUs. Three years later, the policy is colliding with the realities of globalized supply chains, reseller-driven distribution models, […]

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40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice

from the forever-and-a-day dept One of the little-known but extremely telling episodes in the history of modern copyright, discussed in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available), concerns the Marrakesh Treaty. A post on the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) site from 2017 has a good summary of what the treaty is about, and why it is important: It […]

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What 4 Years on the Fast Track Taught Me About My Career: From Dropping Out to Leading a Production Application

Four years ago, I was living with my parents, working as an assistant at an optometry office, with zero clue what I was going to do for the rest of my life. This year, I have designed websites for large medical practices serving 40,000+ patients daily, led an architecture transformation that reduced system failures from […]

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How Xerox and Stack Overflow partnered to preserve knowledge and power innovation

As a global technology leader, Xerox continues to evolve the way the world works. In an era defined by hybrid workplaces and rapid digital transformation, the company recognized a growing challenge: preserving the collective knowledge of engineers and partners spread across continents. To solve this, Xerox partnered with Stack Overflow to create a modern, centralized […]

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Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas — Smashing Magazine

Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question. In my previous article, I explored how AI can help us create functional personas more efficiently. We looked at building personas that focus on what users are trying to accomplish rather than demographic profiles that look good on […]

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TEN Protocol redefines Ethereum’s privacy with ‘compute in confidence’ approach

Ethereum’s transparency has long been one of its greatest strengths, but for many real-world applications, it has also become a structural limitation. From MEV-driven trading inefficiencies to data leakage in DeFi, gaming, and AI-driven workflows, the assumption that everything must be public in order to be verifiable is increasingly being challenged. TEN Protocol is built […]

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