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Last updated: 25 October 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Anthropic Warns Hackers Are Stealing Claude Sessions To Hijack Accounts
Anthropic warns that infostealer malware is stealing Claude login sessions to drain account usage.
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Rank Math WordPress Plugin Accused Of Secretly Taking Admin Access
New allegations surfaced that the Rank Math WordPress plugin has introduced a functionality that silently gives the company administrator-level permissions over…
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Judge Questions Google AI, Spam Update Fallout – SEO Pulse
This week’s SEO Pulse covers Google’s AI publisher dispute, spam update fallout, the GEO debate, AI citation gaps, and ChatGPT’s Reddit behavior in search.
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Google is dynamically expanding AI Overviews for some queries
Google has confirmed that for some queries AI Overviews may dynamically expand to its full state, replacing the AI Overview snippet with a full detailed response. This…
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How To Add Google’s Preferred Sources Button To Your Website
Add Google's Preferred Sources button with the standard embed, a configurable WordPress widget, or a deeplink.
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The Telegraph’s next podcast play: video, events and paid memberships
Fresh off its acquisition by Axel Springer, The Telegraph is pushing its podcast ambitions beyond audio, building repeatable franchises that can span video, live events…
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Target’s new beauty selection has almost no Black-owned brands
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Target’s refreshed beauty assortment aims to promote emerging brands, but it includes very few from…
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How a content marketer became an award-winning cannabis creator
Ahead of opening its doors in 2023, Gotham Cannabis Dispensary had a marketing problem. Cannabis was legal in New York City, but social media platforms strictly prohibit…
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As WPP’s Cindy Rose marks a year as CEO, turnaround is underway but far from certain
Cindy Rose has been in charge of WPP for a year. So far, her tenure is best judged by examining the decisions deferred as much as the ones she’s taken. At the time of…
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Media Buying Briefing: Linda Boff on the power of independent agencies, and the need for financial discipline
Anyone in the marketing or agency world knows Linda Boff. The longtime CMO for GE in its heyday, Boff is somewhat of a marketing guru, having worked with multiple…
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Instagram growth continues to outpace Facebook in EU
Meta’s latest DSA reporting showed that while both platforms have significant reach, Facebook usage is trailing Instagram.
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The app is giving users free X API credits so they can try out its latest artificial intelligence-powered tool to gain account performance insights.
Read on our sitePinterest sets date for annual marketing showcase
Pinterest will share the latest usage insights, trends and advertising updates at the virtual event.
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The platform may soon be awarding virtual gems to its most engaging posts, according to an image posted by an app researcher.
Read on our siteMeta updates login with Facebook
The company improved the process with a focus on streamlining returning logins and allowing eligible users to confirm credentials with a single tap.
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The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
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Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a…
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Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a ‘brazen campaign’ of intellectual property theft
This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
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At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
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‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from…
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Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.
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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of…
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An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
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