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Shadow AI drove 43% of breaches last year — and marketing briefs are the entry point
IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report flags unsanctioned tools as the fastest-growing exposure vector.
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AI Overviews are satisfying the query without the visit, and publisher impressions hold…
How-to guides and definitional pages are being absorbed into the answer at the top of the results page.
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DKIM sat unused for a generation until the cost of forged mail outran the cost of fixing…
A chicken-and-egg standoff between senders and receivers finally broke when business email compromise losses forced the platforms' hand.
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Rakuten has paid shoppers $3.6 billion, and bought a map of their buying lives
The rebate is real; so is the surveillance the portal login and browser extension quietly enable on every routed purchase.
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EEOC signs indefinite settlement shielding qualifying Christian employers in some gender…
The EEOC has signed a perpetual settlement shielding more than 20,000 Christian Employers Alliance members from gender identity discrimination invest…
Local Consequences
Bulloch County, Georgia did not reject a data center ban on August 4: commissioners tabl…
Coverage framing the August outcome as a defeat missed that the ban amendment was only postponed for roughly 30 days at the elected board's own reque…
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Cutting social media for one week dropped depressive symptoms 24.8 percent in 373 young…
A JAMA Network Open study also found anxiety fell 16 percent and insomnia 14.5 percent over the same week.
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Federal judge blocks New York’s $75 billion climate superfund law, ruling the Clea…
A federal judge blocked New York's $75 billion Climate Change Superfund Act on preemption grounds, but the ruling's narrow legal reasoning leaves the…
Inside You
Adults who describe their childhood as ‘fine’ often aren’t in denial —…
The adult who calls their childhood 'fine' is often not repressing anything. They are reporting accurately from inside a vocabulary that never had th…
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Meta is about to pass Google in worldwide ad revenue — the identity-data trade finally c…
eMarketer's projected crossover marks the endpoint of a decade in which behavioural data outsold search intent.
Local Consequences
The Ohio Supreme Court just ordered Trenton to put a citizen data center ban on a specia…
The unanimous ruling rejected the council's interpretation that 'electors' meant all 8,197 registered voters rather than the 1,277 who actually cast…
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73% of marketing teams used generative AI in Gartner’s 2024 survey — and 45% of CMOs had…
Gartner's survey of 418 marketing leaders, reported by Search Engine Journal, pairs mass AI adoption with a spike in mid-flight terminations.
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Google’s spam update isn’t broadly targeting AI content — reports point to m…
Domains with prior genuine engagement are surviving the August rollout; template-shaped publishers producing 400 articles a week are not.
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Snap’s $2,195 Specs bet the billboard will become a stackable AR surface
Evan Spiegel unveiled wireless glasses with a 51-degree field of view at Augmented World Expo.
Inside You
There’s a difference between loving animals and preferring them to people — one is…
Preferring animals to people is often misread as love for animals. More often it is what remains after decades of emotional work that never came back.
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Google Analytics’ bot filter only catches the bots polite enough to identify thems…
The 2014-era checkbox screens declared crawlers on the IAB list while residential-proxy traffic sails through as users.