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What It Really Takes to Get YouTube Live and TikTok Publishing Approved
Building a social media integration is one thing. Getting the social network to actually approve it for production is another. Over the past several months, I have been building VidSyndicate, a social media publishing and video distribution platform. One of the goals behind the project is to give businesses a single application for managing content across networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, and others. From a development standpoint, connecting an API is of
Apple and Epic argue over how much Apple should get from purchases made outside the App Store
In a new filing in its long-running legal dispute with Epic Games, Apple has proposed a structure that would allow it to collect fees on digital purchases made via external links that don't use the company's in-app purchase system. Epic has already responded, saying that Apple's request is "far outside of the bounds" of the court's guidance. Right now, Apple cannot take a commission on external purchases after California district court judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled in April 2025 that found
PBS loses 70 years of TV history after cloud storage vendor goes defunct
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I Almost Quit Coding Last Year, Here's What Changed My Mind
There was a stretch last year where I seriously considered walking away from coding altogether. Not dramatically, not in one single moment, just a slow, quiet decision building up over weeks. I would open my laptop, stare at a project, and feel nothing but tired. I kept comparing myself to other developers who seemed to be moving faster, understanding more, building bigger things, and somewhere in that comparison, I started to believe I simply wasn't good enough to keep going. I didn't tell many
Why SaaS AI Visibility May Depend on Community Signals, Citations, and Governance
AI visibility for SaaS brands appears to be evolving beyond conventional search rankings. Industry analysis increasingly frames it as a cross-engine, citation-driven discipline in which content, entity signals, technical access, and credible community references can all influence whether a brand is surfaced in AI-generated answers. That shift matters because AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini can assemble answers from multiple reference points rather than directing users
The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.
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