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Marketing & SEO Aug 31, 2026

Enterprise SEO: What it is & how to build a winning strategy

Enterprise SEO involves optimizing a website’s visibility at scale, using templated and automated approaches.

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Tech Aug 31, 2026

Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It's also renaming the "AI creator" label to "AI-generated profile" to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that's not a real human being. "We've heard that people don't like seeing a profile […]

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Marketing & SEO Aug 31, 2026

How to rank in ChatGPT search: 8 steps to improve visibility

Rank in ChatGPT search by making your content easy for AI systems to extract and by building off-site consensus.

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Marketing & SEO Aug 31, 2026

Why is SEO important? 11 reasons it still matters.

SEO improves your online visibility + complements answer engine optimization. Here’s why it matters in 2026.

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Marketing & SEO Aug 31, 2026

8 Best AI Content Marketing Tools for 2026 (Tried & Tested)

The best AI content marketing tools include Semrush‘s AI Visibility Toolkit and ChatGPT.

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Tech Aug 30, 2026

Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you […]

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Tech Aug 30, 2026

Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a […]

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Security Aug 30, 2026

TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor

Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. "While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply the same technique but direct users to Windows Terminal or PowerShell instead, increasing the likelihood that complex

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Tech Aug 30, 2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon. From this vantage point, Roman will conduct an unprecedented survey of the universe. Its field of view […]

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Tech Aug 30, 2026

Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras

As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacking a $1 fee onto insurance policies, […]

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Tech Aug 30, 2026

Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May: Gambit, a free online poker website where players can learn the game without risking any real […]

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Tech Aug 30, 2026

China’s robots race ahead

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling robots and the US-China AI race, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started I've admitted my fondness for […]

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