NewzDash published an analysis comparing Discover visibility before and after Google’s February 2026 Discover core update, using panel data from millions of US users tracked through its DiscoverPulse tool. It compared pre-update (Jan 25-31) and post-update (Feb 8-14) windows across the top 1,000 domains and top 1,000 articles in the US, California, and New York. For transparency, NewzDash is a news SEO tracking platform that sells Discover monitoring tools. What The Data Shows Google said the update targeted more locally relevant content, less sensational and clickbait content, and more in-depth, timely content from sites with topic expertise. The NewzDash data…
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As the US prepares for a possible military strike against Iran, the nation-state threat group MuddyWater is wasting no time ramping up its cyber offensive against organizations in the Middle East and Africa region with an emerging attack campaign delivering several new strains of custom malware.The campaign, dubbed Operation Olalampo, starts with the group’s typical entry tactic — spear-phishing emails — and ends with the deployment of one of several strains of never-before-seen second-stage loader and backdoor malware, according to a report by Group-IB published Friday. Olalampo “targeted multiple organizations and individuals primarily across the MENA region, aligning with the ongoing…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 23, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting specific entities in Western and Central Europe. The activity, per S2 Grupo’s LAB52 threat intelligence team, was active between September 2025 and January 2026. It has been codenamed Operation MacroMaze. “The campaign relies on basic tooling and the exploitation of legitimate services for infrastructure and data exfiltration,” the cybersecurity company said. The attack chains employ spear-phishing emails as a starting point to distribute lure documents that contain a common structural element within their XML, a field named…
Advertisers contacting Google Ads support may now need to grant explicit authorization before they can even submit a help request — giving a Google specialist permission to access and make changes directly inside their account. Here’s what’s happening. Users are first routed to a beta AI chat. If they opt to submit a support form instead, they must tick an “Authorisation” box. The wording allows a Google Ads specialist, on behalf of the company, to reproduce and troubleshoot issues by making changes directly in the account. The fine print is clear. Google doesn’t guarantee results. Any adjustments are made at…
Expansion cards are fantastic in that they are inexpensive ways to improve the versatility of a host system. This could be network-attached storage (NAS), a desktop PC, or a home lab server. Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are particularly great for DIY servers where consumer-grade motherboards don’t provide the right level of redundant array of independent disks (RAID) or enough SATA ports. It doesn’t really unlock features that weren’t previously available on the motherboard, but it provides new hardware that sits between the board and storage drives. This allows them to expand the capabilities of the motherboard’s built-in storage controllers, most…
A new malware delivery campaign has hit ClawHub, the official online repository for “skills” that augment the capabilities of the popular OpenClaw AI agent. Unlike previous ones, this campaign does not aim to trick users into downloading a bogus, malicious skill. Instead, the threat actor is leaving this particular comment on popular legitimate skills published by others: The malicious troubleshooting comment “At first glance, this appears to be a troubleshooting suggestion. It is not. It is a malware loader,” the OpenGuardrails research team warns. When the Base64-encoded payload is decoded, it reaveals a commang that downloads a shellcode loader from…
Semrush research shows that AI systems cite content more often when it reads clearly, proves credibility, and is easy to extract.That’s because LLMs (large language models) don’t rank pages like traditional search engines. They extract passages with clear answers and summarize sections from sources they trust.That means optimizing content for AI visibility comes down to structuring it in a way that models can interpret quickly and reuse with confidence.The AI Search Optimizer on Semrush helps you rewrite your content to make it more citable by platforms like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews.Step 1: Choose High-Priority Pages to Optimize for AI SearchWhen…
Do you remember sharing your earphones with a friend back in the day? Listening to music together on the bus or stealthily weaving the wires through your hoodie sleeves to listen together at school? Maybe you had an audio splitter so that you could share your tunes without swapping ear wax with your friends, or you counted down from three and pressed play on a song at the same time, so it was like listening together. I’ve done all of the above. I love music, and specifically, sharing music with loved ones. So when I heard about Android’s Audio Sharing…
CISA has added the flaws, one of which is considered critical, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
C. Scott Brown / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google TV users are reporting that Gemini may have broken search on their TVs. When attempting to perform a search, these users get stuck on a Gemini screen that asks whether they want to allow personal results. Uninstalling the Google TV update appears to be one workaround. In September 2025, Google started rolling out Gemini to Google TV. It first arrived on the TCL QM9K and has since spread to more devices. While the AI voice assistant is designed to be a helpful addition to the platform, it has been anything but that in…