Google has been testing Social Channel Insights inside Google Search Console (GSC). This update may appear small, but it’s more than meets the eye. In the search landscape, these new social insights translate to a bigger shift happening behind the scenes, where search and social data converge to improve visibility. The official announcement from Google highlighted the growth of businesses managing their digital presence on popular social media sites. The integration makes sense as social media continues to become a popular method for search discovery and information, with 15% of consumers believing social media to be the most accurate/current source…
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Home Assistant has come a long way since the days when all your automations had to be written in YAML. These days, you can build automations in the automation editor without seeing a single line of code. With so many actions to choose from in the automation editor, it’s easy to miss some of the most useful ones. Call a script A lot of my automations contain some similar actions. For example, I have multiple automations that send a notification to my phone, my wife’s phone, and if we’re home and it’s powered on, to my smart TV. I could…
About six of every 10 corporate employees are willing to use shadow AI tools if it helps them meet work deadlines, according to a report from security firm BlackFog. The report shows that 86% of workers are using AI tools at least once a week to accomplish certain tasks and more than one-third are using free versions of tools approved by their employers. In addition, seven of every 10 C-level executives are willing to let faster production outweigh the need for increased security, according to the report. “The consistent story we have heard is that CEOs have mandated the adoption…
It’s hard to imagine a time in B2B marketing history when everything changed this quickly. Just in the last couple of years, we’ve seen incredibly volatile Google SERPs, a huge shift from search engines providing options to now providing AI-generated answers, and hundreds of new tools and features just waiting for us to learn. The one theme running through the B2B marketing trends for 2026 is a continuation of this evolution. But with change comes opportunity. Marketers who plan for what’s coming will take giant leaps ahead of their competitors. Contents AI agents go mainstream Experience marketing comes back into…
The fifth and final season of Netflix’s sci-fi adventure series Stranger Things wrapped up in December 2025, and at least online, there was a ton of blowback. We’re now well into the new year, and new controversies continue to arise. At this point, it’s starting to feel like fans are picking at a scab. It’s clear a lot of people were dissatisfied with the way Stranger Things ended, but the pile-on now seems to be the point. The many controversies of Stranger Things 5 From Conformity Gate to SNL The first four episodes of Stranger Things season 5 came out…
A prolific initial access broker tracked as TA584 has been observed using the Tsundere Bot alongside XWorm remote access trojan to gain network access that could lead to ransomware attacks. Proofpoint researchers have been tracking TA584’s activity since 2020 and say that the threat actor has significantly increased its operations recently, introducing a continuous attack chain that undermines static detection. Tsundere Bot was first documented by Kaspersky last year and attributed to a Russian-speaking operator with links to the 123 Stealer malware. Although the goals and infection method remained murky at the time, Proofpoint says that “the malware can be used for information gathering,…
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office. A short while later, the White House posted the same photo – except that version had been digitally altered to darken Armstrong’s skin and rearrange her facial features to make it appear she was sobbing or distraught. The Guardian one of many media outlets to report on this image manipulation,…
Most brands performing well in traditional local search fail to appear in results from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, according to SOCi’s newly released 2026 local visibility index. Also of note: business profile information was only about 68% accurate on ChatGPT and Perplexity, compared with 100% accuracy on Gemini, which is grounded in Google Maps. AI limits local visibility. Performance data from nearly 350,000 locations across 2,751 multi-location brands was analyzed to measure how often locations are surfaced or recommended by AI assistants. Turns out, AI platforms are far more selective than Google’s local results: 1.2% of locations were recommended by…
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Threat actors may not only be stealing AI access from fully developed applications, the researchers added. A developer trying to prototype an app, who, through carelessness, doesn’t secure a server, could be victimized through credential theft as well. Joseph Steinberg, a US-based AI and cybersecurity expert, said the report is another illustration of how new technology like artificial intelligence creates new risks and the need for new security solutions beyond the traditional IT controls. CSOs need to ask themselves if their organization has the skills needed to safely deploy and protect an AI project, or whether the work should be…