Credit cards only, never debit, capped at your own processing rate and never above 4%, with 30 days' notice and three separate disclosures. The rules, the states with restrictions, and the arithmetic showing a compliant surcharge recovers about 94% of your fees.
Plausible Analytics crossed $1 million in annual recurring revenue on June 2, 2022, three years after its first $64 month. The engine was written content aimed at a problem, not a product.
Google's spam policies never mention AI writing as a violation on its own. The test is scale, purpose and value, and the neighbouring policies on thin affiliation and site reputation abuse catch small sites too.
From September 30, apps must be registered by a verified developer to install in four countries, with global rollout in 2027. The dates, the $25 versus free account decision, and what verification leaves alone.
eBay International Shipping replaces GSP for UK sellers from August, automatically. Reach goes from 105 countries to 195+, and your payout is protected once the parcel is scanned at the UK hub.
The reporting threshold for payment apps and marketplaces returned to more than $20,000 and 200 transactions. Card payments still have no threshold, and the form reports gross, not profit.
DORA found AI adoption raises throughput and instability together. The fix is not another tool: it is a size ceiling, a written approval rule, and repository settings that enforce both.
Search Console gives you no AI Overviews breakdown, so stop waiting for one. A four-step routine using impressions versus clicks, GA4 referrals and crawler logs, plus what each control costs.
UK and US safety institutes watched an open-weight model finish a 32-step attack against weakly defended systems. A one-hour lockdown for small teams that run their own servers.
Two datasets published this month agree: AI tagged freelance work pays a large premium, while commodity generation work is deflating fast. Where the premium actually sits, the arithmetic on real rates, and how to rewrite your offer to sit there too.
Shopify gave vape merchants 14 days to delist worldwide, legal markets included. Category bans are a different risk class from account bans: you can be fully compliant and still lose the channel. The three layers, an exposure test, and this week's moves.
A rejection is not a verdict, it is the start of a documented process most developers never read. Fix and resubmit, reply, appeal, expedite: what each lever is for, the exact screens, and the timeline math for your launch.
A developer asked Codex for a homepage redesign and got his entire git history uploaded to OpenAI infrastructure. The training and retention switches in Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor and the OpenAI API, with exact paths.
Anthropic's Opus 5 tops the independent leaderboard at half the price of the top tier. Worked token math and a repeatable procedure for re-picking every model you pay for.
US marketplace insurers filed their largest increases since 2018 and the enhanced credits are gone. What self-employed founders control: income estimates, HSA pairing, QSEHRA vs SHOP, and enrollment prep.
A new benchmark pushed Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY to 60,000 writes per second. The documented limits, the doorbell pattern, and the four conditions that actually justify a second system.
Merchants of record charge 5% plus 50 cents; a DIY Stripe and Stripe Tax stack runs about 3.4%. The worked math on what that 1.6-point spread buys, and who should pay it.
The OCC just told Wise it cannot be a bank yet. A practical map of the three models that protect money held at fintechs, the conditions attached to each, and a 15 minute fix for your float.
Meta shipped a dedicated app for Facebook Marketplace sellers: AI-drafted listings, a buyer-only inbox, bulk inventory tools and performance data. What's in it, and a day-one plan.
Open-weight models served over API now cost 10-50x less than frontier flagships. The price map from providers' own pages, a worked monthly bill with a 100x spread, and a three-tier routing rule.
Cursor and Replit tore up flat pricing within weeks of each other, for the same reason: per-user costs vary by an order of magnitude. The math behind the pattern, and four structures that survive it.
Patreon cut 93 jobs while taking 10% of creator income. A fee comparison across Patreon, Substack and Ghost, and the question that matters more: who owns your subscriber billing?
A researcher found a GitHub admin token, access to hundreds of repos, inside a camera's login page, put there by the build tool. The same failure mode lives in ordinary web builds; the fix takes an hour.
Google publishes exactly how local ranking works - relevance, distance, prominence - and the profile is free. A 90-minute setup mapped to Google's own factors, plus the review system that compounds it.