Australia boots kids under 16 off social media: how platforms are responding

Australia is joining a wave of governments around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in the country under 16 from their services. Under the law, social platforms will also need to implement a “reasonable” age verification method there – while … Read more

Profound vs Ahrefs: When Visibility Goes Beyond Backlinks

Everyone in SEO worships Ahrefs — and rightly so. It’s the industry’s go-to for backlink analysis, keyword research, and seeing exactly how much traffic your competitor’s blog gets for that weird long-tail query from 2018. But if you zoom out a little, you’ll realize something: brand visibility today isn’t just about backlinks or SERPs. It’s … Read more

The Invisible Line Item: Why Pollution Is Missing From Every Balance Sheet

The Invisible Cost: Pollution as the Missing Line Item Every profitable company has a balance sheet. Assets. Liabilities. Equity. Revenue. Expenses. But there’s one line item that’s been missing for centuries: the cost of pollution. This isn’t an oversight. It’s a fundamental flaw in how we account for value. And it’s not just about corporations—it’s … Read more

Earth Cleaning Technologies: The Current R&D Status and Why We’re Still Losing the Race

The Paradox: We Can Clean Earth, But We Don’t Imagine if you could reverse decades of pollution. Remove billions of tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere. Clean millions of square kilometers of ocean. Restore forests at scale. The good news? We can. The bad news? We’re not doing it fast enough. The technologies exist. Research … Read more

Data center construction moratorium is gaining steam

A Microsoft data center under construction in Aldie, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images More than 230 groups including Food & Water Watch, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Greenpeace are demanding a pause on the construction of any new data centers in the US until stronger regulations are in place … Read more

What 10 PB of Cold Data Really Costs in AWS, GCP, Azure vs Tape Over 20 Years

What a 10 PB, 20-year archive really costs in AWS/GCP/Azure vs a tape-backed object store Why long-term preservation is back on the board agenda Most cloud bills started life as rounding errors. A few terabytes here, a backup bucket there, a “just in case” archive for compliance. It looked cheap, flexible, and—critically—someone else’s problem. Fast-forward … Read more

Create AI-powered chat assistants for your enterprise with Amazon Quick Suite

Teams need instant access to enterprise data and intelligent guidance on how to use it. Instead, they get scattered information across multiple systems. This results in employees spending valuable time searching for answers instead of making decisions. In this post, we show how to build chat agents in Amazon Quick Suite to address this problem. … Read more