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The Google October 2022 spam update, the first spam update since last November, started and was completed within 42 hours, I have more on that in the video. Google also has rolled out a new Site name and favicon design for the mobile search results, with new structured data. With that, Google has rolled out the new bold black “sponsored” ad label. On that label, Google is working on a fix for s...

Phishing remains one of the most common and effective forms of cyber-attack. This vector exploded since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, fuelled by increased reliance on digital communications and numerous emotive events that served as effective lures. In February 2022, Proofpoint research found that more than nine in 10 (91%) UK organizations were successfully compromised by an email phishi...

In this article, Sacha Greif tries to anticipate future CSS trends and takes a look at some far-fetched and futuristic CSS features that might one day make their way to the browser. I run the annual State of CSS survey, asking developers about the CSS features and tools they use or want to learn. The survey is actually open right now, so go take it! The goal of the survey is to help antici...

Weekly Memecoin Update It was another difficult week for our top memecoin protocols. Most dog-themed projects dropped in price in the past seven days. Despite the bear market, these projects continue to improve their utilities in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. Let’s give a recap of how they fared in the past week: Dogecoin ($DOGE) $DOGE continues its run as the number one memecoin by ...

Texas sued Google over claims that the search-engine giant is illegally capturing the biometric data of users. Texas sued Google over claims that the search-engine giant is illegally capturing the biometric data of users without their consent, the latest in a series of lawsuits by the state against tech companies over online privacy. Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., has collected millions of bi...

Microsoft this week confirmed that it inadvertently exposed information related to thousands of customers following a security lapse that left an endpoint publicly accessible over the internet sans any authentication. “This misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between Microsoft and prospective custo...

TikTok said it has never been used to “target” any members of the US government, activists, public figures or journalists, after Forbes reported that its parent ByteDance planned to use the app to track particular individuals. TikTok “does not collect precise GPS location information from US users, meaning TikTok could not monitor US users in the way the article suggested”, the platform added i...

TikTok banned all political advertisements from its platform in 2019 TikTok’s algorithms are very good at finding videos to keep people glued to their phone screens for hours on end. What they are not so good at, a new report has found, is detecting ads that contain blatant misinformation about US elections. That’s despite TikTok having banned all political advertisements from its platform in...

Ofcom CEO Dame Melanie Dawes. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images) Getty Images Most adult-only sites in the UK are failing to do enough to protect children from porn, regulator Ofcom has warned. According to Ofcom, while all such sites have age verification measures in place when users sign up to post content, most allow users to access adult content just by self-declaring...

Draft details of how Colorado intends to implement its new consumer privacy law would add requirements that attorneys say companies should consider well ahead of the July 2023 effective date. Proposed Colorado Privacy Act rules released by the state attorney general’s office provide specifics of how the state intends to bolster consumers’ control over how their personal data is collected, proce...