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we compared 8 web hosts in common crawl's domain-level link graph. 35 non-platform domains link to all 8, while 72% of linking domains appear for only one subject. how we pulled this for each subject domain, we pulled the top 2,000 referring domains by authority from common crawl release Apr-Jun 2026 (cc-main-2026-apr-may-jun). we intersected those lists, then removed platform, cdn, social, and other non-editorial domains from the clean overlap counts. the filter matters. hosting providers, cdns, url shorteners and the big social networks link to almost everything, so leaving them in would produce a universal list that is technically correct and useless for outreach. the counts below are after that filter unless a column says otherwise. everything here comes from the open common crawl webgraph, so you can reproduce it without a paid backlink tool. subject domains domain referring domains cg authority hostinger.com 36,900 61 siteground.com 13,882 60 bluehost.com 48,747 61 dreamhost.com 36,470 61 wpengine.com 100,000 64 cloudways.com 13,795 58 kinsta.com 13,963 62 namecheap.com 16,701 62 the overlap across the 8 subjects, we found 10,077 unique linking domains. the clean universal set contains 35 domains. metric value unique linking domains 10,077 link to one subject 72% link to all 8 35 overlap distribution overlap all domains non-platform link to all 8 42 35 link to 7 89 86 link to 6 133 131 link to 5 185 182 link to 4 336 335 link to 3 614 608 link to 2 1,432 1,430 link to just 1 7,246 7,240 the distribution is the interesting part. most linking domains sit in the bottom row: they mention one product and never come back. the rows above it are where outreach lives, because a site that already covers several products in a category has an editorial reason to cover another one. a short universal list usually means the category is covered by a handful of directories, review sites and integration hubs rather than by a broad press base. a long one means the category has r

You Only Hold Four Thoughts Try to multiply 47 by 83 in your head. The answer is not the point. Watch what happens while you reach for it. You hold 47, you hold 83, you start on the partial products, and somewhere around the third one the first number goes soft. You reach for a pen, because the problem outgrew the place you were keeping it. That ceiling is real and it is low. The cognitive scientist Nelson Cowan spent years measuring it and put the number at about four. Not the seven you half-remember from an old paper, but three to five distinct things held in mind at once. 1 Four. That is the working capacity of the most sophisticated object in the known universe. Everything we call getting smarter has been a way around that four. The history of human intelligence is the history of putting thoughts somewhere other than the head, and it runs as a stack, each layer holding what the one below it cannot. The first rung is paper Reaching for the pen looks like a small surrender. It is the oldest cognitive upgrade there is. The moment you write 47 above 83 and start stacking partial products, you are thinking about six or seven things at once, because the paper is holding all but the one you are working on. Justin Sung, who teaches learning for a living, puts it more sharply. Writing is not the thing you do after you have reached clarity. Writing is what produces the clarity. 2 The page becomes the workspace where the thought turns real, because your four slots are freed to do the actual reasoning while the page remembers the rest. This is also why handwriting beats typing. It is far slower than thinking, and that slowness forces you to compress, to decide what is worth the stroke. The friction is not a tax on the process. The friction is the process. A page of notes you struggled to write holds more than a page you copied without resistance. The page is not a transcript of a finished thought. It is the workspace where the thought becomes possible. The rung most people

The Stable Liar The dashboard was green for eight quarters The most dangerous number on a dashboard is the one that has stayed green the longest, and the way it fails has a shape you have probably watched up close. For eight straight quarters the dashboard holds green. Revenue up and to the right. Retention flat and healthy. NPS in the fifties. Every board meeting opens on the same slide and closes on the same nod. The plan is working. Then, six months after the eighth green quarter, the business the dashboard was supposed to describe nearly falls over. Pull the post-mortem apart and the easy story is that the numbers lied. They did not. Every quarter the dashboard reports something true: customers are still paying, logins are still happening, the survey scores are still fine. All of it accurate. The failure is quieter and worse than a lie. The words behind the numbers change meaning while the numbers stand still. “Retention” still counts the same logins, but a login has stopped predicting a customer who will renew. The metric keeps its shape long after the thing it measured has walked out of the room. Anyone who has run a team has felt a smaller version of this. The number you trusted most became the number that surprised you most. You were not lied to. You were tracking something that used to mean one thing and quietly came to mean another, and the dashboard had no way to tell you the meaning had moved. This is the stable liar: a number that goes on looking right long after it stopped being right. It is a structural property of measurement under pressure, and it has a law underneath it. Why every optimised metric drifts A metric is a substitution: you replace the thing you care about with something you can count, and the gap between them is where the trouble lives. Start with the substitution. You cannot measure value, loyalty, insight, or health directly, so you pick a proxy you can count. Revenue stands in for value. NPS stands in for loyalty. Citations stand in

For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple's App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion users around the world, used widely as a secure platform for people who live in countries under censorship. Apple later […]

2026 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Apple TV. Apple's streaming service has built out an impressive slate that spans returning favorites like Silo and Sugar to all-new hits including OnlyFans-inspired dramedies, terrifying comedies, and paranoid tech thrillers. But the most important release might be a feel-good sports sitcom. After what seemed […]

In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening weekend in Hollywood history. The feature has been a reminder of why Sony is probably never going to give up the Spider-Man film rights, and highlighted how Marvel Studios was smart to strike a […]

The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast […]

The next Xbox, Project Helix, could theoretically have the largest library of any home console. Not only will it play PC games, but we now know, courtesy of a leaked memo obtained by The Verge's Tom Warren, that it will run games from every generation of Xbox: the original 2001 Xbox, the 2005 Xbox 360, […]

No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone into every room in your house. As AI gives them a better understanding of what they see, the privacy and security risks these autonomous robots pose are […]

Cape Fear has always been a thriller about paranoia. And in 2026 there are few things less trustworthy than technology. Apple TV's recent remake of Cape Fear is "inspired" by the 1991 film of the same name (Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg even returned as executive producers on the project), which itself is a remake […]

Over the last few years, I've gradually shifted away from ebooks. It's been part of a general return to physical media, an attempt to create a deeper sense of ownership over the art I love and collect. A Kindle is obviously more convenient than a paperback: It's tiny, holds a huge library, and you can […]

Apple's new Upgrade program is here, allowing you to lease select models of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Watches with a relatively low monthly payment. The company promises you won't pay more than the full price of the device over the course of the one- to three-year lease, and in some cases, you'll pay hundreds of […]

There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark: “ CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysis? ” The idea is to benchmark the ability of LLMs to discover new mathematical cryptanalytic attacks against a series of historical algorithms. Abstract: Cryptanalysis—the task of finding attacks against cryptographic schemes—its at the intersection of mathematical reasoning and cybersecurity, two areas where LLMs have advanced fastest. Cryptanalysis represents both a clean testbed for frontier reasoning (as practical attacks can be automatically verified) and a domain with unusually high stakes, since the primitives under study underpin our digital security. In this paper we ask whether LLMs can do cryptanalysis, and find that the answer is increasingly yes. We introduce CryptanalysisBench, 191 tasks across six families of cryptographic primitives (block ciphers, hash functions, etc.) drawn primarily from four NIST standardization competitions. Our benchmark consists of three tiers: (i) primitives with known practical breaks; (ii) primitives with no known practical break, evaluated both at full strength and as scaled-down variants; and (iii) a challenge set of production primitives at the frontier of cryptanalysis. Five frontier models (Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, Mythos 5, GPT-5.5, and the open-weights GLM-5.2) break 65%­86% of Tier 1 schemes, 6­12 Tier-2 schemes at full strength, and 24­61 across all scaled-down variants. Beyond deriving known results, models produce novel cryptanalysis, such as a key-recovery attack that exploits a design flaw in the SpoC AEAD and an error in KINDI’s published CCA-security proof, both to the best of our knowledge not previously known...

Across New York City, London, and Washington, DC, ads for Meta's smart glasses have been plastered over with satirical posters from activist groups. One guerrilla ad calls these "the biggest advancement in pervert technology since the trenchcoat." Another transposes the words "mass surveillance predator glasses" over influencer Kylie Jenner's face, calling her out for partnering […]

Meta's smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company. Public backlash has been swift, and fierce; people are concerned about the erosion of privacy and expansion of surveillance. Some especially bad actors are using the glasses to film themselves "pranking" random strangers. Women have become unsuspecting social media content for men filming themselves […]

IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal - an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company's new AI model. But […]

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But […]

There's a symbiotic - and sometimes frustrating - relationship between social media sites and the creators that depend on them. Platforms need influencers' and creators' content to keep consumers on their apps; the creators, in turn, need to be able to reach those audiences to justify creating their content in the first place. Creators want […]

After seeing Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey for the first time early last week, I came away impressed, but somewhat conflicted about two of the film's more fantastical set pieces. While those scenes were beautifully crafted and tremendously acted, there was something a little bit off about the way they hit my eye. I spent days […]

અમદાવાદમાં કાયદો અને વ્યવસ્થાના લીરેલીરા: ભાડજમાં શ્રીનિવાસ વણઝારાએ ખુલ્લેઆમ રિવોલ્વર લહેરાવી, લોકોમાં એટલો ખોફ કે કોઈ સાક્ષી આપવા કે સામે ઊભા રહેવા તૈયાર નથી! મધરાતે ધરપકડ બાદ રાતોરાત જામીન મળતા લોકોનો પોલીસ પરથી વિશ્વાસ ડગ્યો અમદાવાદ : શહેરમાં ગુનાખોરીની પ્રવૃત્તિઓ ડામવા માટે પોલીસ એક્શન મોડમાં હોવાના દાવાઓ વચ્ચે અમદાવાદના ભાડજ વિસ્તારમાંથી રૂવાડા ઊભા કરી દે તેવી ચોંકાવનારી ઘટના સામે આવી છે. મોડી રાત્રે 3 વાગ્યે શ્રીનિવાસ વણઝારાની સગીર મિત્ર સાથે અટકાયત અને ગણતરીના કલાકોમાં જ રાતોરાત પોલીસ સ્ટેશનથી મળેલા જામીન બાદ હવે આ કેસમાં વધુ એક ભયાનક વળાંક આવ્યો છે. ભાડજમાં ખુલ્લેઆમ રિવોલ્વર લહેરાવી મળતી માહિતી અને સૂત્રોના જણાવ્યા અનુસાર, જૂની અદાવતના મામલામાં શ્રીનિવાસ વણઝારાએ ભાડજ વિસ્તારમાં કાયદાનો કોઈ જ ડર રાખ્યા વિના ખુલ્લેઆમ પોતાની રિવોલ્વર લહેરાવી હતી. હાથમાં હથિયાર લઈને ફરતા અને રિવોલ્વર ફેરવતા શ્રીનિવાસ વણઝારાને જોઈને આસપાસના લોકોમાં ભારે નાસભાગ અને ફફડાટ મચી ગયો હતો. જાહેરમાં હથિયારના પ્રદર્શનથી આખા વિસ્તારમાં ગભરાટનો માહોલ છવાઈ ગયો હતો. લોકોમાં એટલો ડર કે કોઈ સાક્ષી આપવા તૈયાર નથી આ ઘટના બાદ ભાડજ વિસ્તારમાં રહેતા લોકોમાં શ્રીનિવાસ વણઝારાનો એટલો ભારે ખોફ બેસી ગયો છે કે કોઈ પણ વ્યક્તિ તેની સામે ઊભા રહીને સાક્ષી આપવા કે પોલીસને પુરાવા આપવા તૈયાર નથી. પોલીસ પૂછપરછમાં પણ સ્થાનિક લોકો ડરના માર્યા મૌન સેવી રહ્યા છે. "શ્રીનિવાસ વણઝારા જ ત્યાં હતા અને તેમણે જ રિવોલ્વરથી આતંક મચાવ્યો હતો" તેવી સાબિતી આપવા માટે વિસ્તારનો એક પણ વ્યક્તિ આગળ આવવાની હિંમત દાખવી રહ્યો નથી. સાક્ષીઓના અભાવે કેસ વધુ પેચીદો બની રહ્યો છે. પોલીસની કામગીરી અને જામીન પ્રક્રિયા પર સવાલો એક તરફ જૂની અદાવતમાં મારામારી અને ત્યારબાદ જાહેરમાં રિવોલ્વર સાથે ડર ફેલાવવાની ઘટના, અને બીજી તરફ 3 વાગ્યે થયેલી અટકાયત બાદ રાતોરાત પોલીસ સ્ટેશનમાંથી જામીન મળી જવા! આ સમગ્ર ઘટનાક્રમે પોલીસની કામગીરી સામે મોટા સવાલો ઊભા કર્યા છે. જ્યારે સામાન્ય જનતા સાક્ષી આપવા જ ડરી રહી હોય, ત્યારે કાયદાના રક્ષકો આ સમગ્ર મામલે કેવી રીતે દાખલો બેસાડશે તે એક મોટો પ્રશ્ન છે. હાલ તો ભાડજ વિસ્તારમાં ભારેલા અગ્નિ જેવી શાંતિ અને લોકોમાં ડરનો માહોલ સ્પષ્ટ જોવા મળી રહ્યો છે.