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AEO for developers: treat content as infrastructure

A 2025 Pew Research Center study found that users clicked traditional results in 8% of Google visits with an AI summary, compared with 15% when no summary appeared. Links cited inside those summaries received clicks in only 1% of visits. That changes what visibility means. A page can influence a decision without receiving the visit and developers increasingly control whether its information can…

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It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service

An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.

  • Hackers breached IDScan service, compromising personal data of millions
  • Stolen data includes driver's licenses and passports from US and Canada
  • Department of Defense and FBI investigating the breach

·techcrunch.com

Learning React - Ep.1

This is the 1st post in my attempt to document my journey of learning React in depth. These posts will focus less on syntax and code snippets and more on conceptual understanding and intuition.

  • React is about constructing a component tree determining UI appearance.
  • React processes components into React element tree, not directly DOM nodes.
  • State changes trigger React re-render and DOM updates.

·dev.to

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