The traditional path from computer science degree to a junior developer role has fundamentally changed. AI is reshaping the software engineering landscape. New graduates face decreased hiring opportunities, elevated skill requirements, and an industry where “junior” tasks increasingly fall to AI-assisted workflows.

The rallying cry of “protect the children!” drives laws that appeal to all political parties, as well as platform rules, but ID checks, bans, and lawsuits often fail in practice. They can create risks for youth, disrupt marketing, and entrench Big Tech. We explore the gap between good intentions and real outcomes.

Your practical, trust-first playbook that shows how better consent UX — implemented with Usercentrics and anchored in Consent Mode v2 and Microsoft UET — becomes performance infrastructure. We map the consent-to-conversion flywheel, detail instrumentation and QA, and connect trust metrics to modeled conversions, bidding stability, and ROAS.

The State of Digital Trust report explored attitudes towards data privacy across age groups — but until now, we haven’t shared the deep-cut insights from Gen Z, whose members grew up in the digital world. As a result, Gen Z is willing to make tradeoffs for online convenience and personalized experiences, without being naive about the value of their data.

Your Google history is a diary you never meant to write. In this Q&A, Vauhini Vara, Pulitzer finalist and author of Searches, turns the web’s tools back on themselves, sharing practical ways to resist platform narratives, rethink metrics, and keep value with people, not platforms.

The convenience of digitalization risks human autonomy. AI’s speed, invisibility, and delegation already often replace human judgment, authorship, and critical thinking, leading to cognitive atrophy. Preserving productive friction and deliberate delegation of tasks to AI maintains agency and offers a competitive advantage in an increasingly automated world.