The Stack Overflow Podcast - One of the world’s biggest web scrapers has some thoughts on data ownership

Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data, a web data platform that offers ready-made datasets, proxy networks, and AI-powered web scrapers. Developers can get started with their docs here.

ICYMI, read our blog post about the knowledge-as-a-service business model and how it will guide the future of our paid platform. 

AI answers alone aren’t knowledge.

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Stack Overflow user guizo earned a Populist badge by explaining How can I minify JSON in a shell script?.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How Google is helping developers get better answers from AI

Logan previously worked at OpenAI, where he led developer relations. He’s now a senior product manager for Google AI Studio, the fastest way for devs to get started with the Gemini API

Logan’s team just rolled out Grounding with Google Search, a feature built to help developers get fresher, more accurate responses from the Gemini models aided by Google Search. Learn more here.

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Props to Stack Overflow user Jonik, who earned a Populist badge by explaining How to write an S3 object to a file?.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs

Want to learn more about the early days of React? React.js: The Documentary gives you the full story from the perspective of the developers who created it.

Vercel is a native Next.js platform.

v0 aims to democratize software development for non-technical users. Check it out here.

Listen to our recent conversation with Vercel’s VP of AI.

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Kudos to Stack Overflow user Sodruldeen Mustapha, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to remove the environment variables from Laravel Debug?

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind

 

Fastlane by PayPal is an accelerated guest checkout experience. Visit theFastlane Resource Center for Developers to get started.

You can find Sunny Patel on LinkedIn and on GitHub.

Find Kyle Prinsloo on and on LinkedIn.

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner M.M who provided an answer to What does the "Expected '(' for function-style cast or type construction" error mean?

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old app builder.

Watch Fay build a Harry Potter-themed chatbot with an assist from AI.

Cursor is the AI code editor Fay’s using. Get started with their docs.

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahendra Kulkarni, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How do I get current rowindex of a table using JavaScript?

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Tragedy of the (data) commons

The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their Explorer tool allows users to filter and analyze the training datasets typically used by large language models.

Shayne and Robert are the authors of a new study called Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons: the first large-scale, longitudinal audit of the consent protocols for the web domains underlying AI training sets.

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Stack Overflow user George Hawkins earned a Populist badge by explaining How to get base url in angular 5?.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write

Tariq Shaukat, the former president of Google Cloud and Bumble, is the CEO of Sonar. Follow him on LinkedIn.

Sonar offers code quality and security solutions that help developers write clean code and remediate existing code organically. Their product SonarQube helps devs ensure the quality and security of AI-generated code.

Watch Olivier Gaudin, founder of Sonar, explain why clean code is the foundation for well-functioning dev teams.

Stack Overflow user Ogglas earned a Populist badge by explaining How to access the appsettings in Blazor WebAssembly.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How API security is evolving for the GenAI era

Solo.io provides API gateway, service mesh, and internal developer portal solutions. 

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Want to brush up on RAG? Our Guide to AI walks you through the concept and includes a practical example. Or check out one expert’s practical tips for RAG on our blog.

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user MrSimpleMind: their helpful answer to the question – How to run jq from gitbash in windows? – has been viewed by more than 213,000 people and won a Populist badge.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - The team behind Unity 6 explains the new features aimed at helping developers

Ryan is a VP of Product focused on the Unity Engine and AI services. You can find him on LinkedIn and X.

Martin Best is a Principal Product Architect working on the Unity Engine. You can find him on LinkedIn.

To learn more about Unity 6, please visit their website

Show some love to this question and Stack Overflow user NPatch, who provided an accepted answer to the question: Why is my character floating in the air when death animation is played in Unity?

The Stack Overflow Podcast - What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability

Sift is an end-to-end observability stack for safety-critical hardware development. See what they’re up to on their blog.

We talked to SpaceX about their testing processes way back in 2021. 

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Stack Overflow user TheScholar earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to create a new deep copy (clone) of a List?, a question that’s helped more than 200,000 people.