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WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes

WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes

WordPress released a minor maintenance release, version 7.0.1, that addresses 31 bugs, including one that improves PHP 8.5 compatibility and another that fixes a security-related function. What is not found in this release: No security fixes. No new developer-facing APIs. No improvements to website performance. No changes to how WordPress works. Nothing of high importance

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Why the next Mediapalooza will be unlike anything before it

Why the next Mediapalooza will be unlike anything before it

Marvel has its Avengers movies. Advertising has mediapalooza. Every few years the biggest media budgets get thrown into review, agencies scramble to hold their accounts, and the trade press reaches for the same nickname. And every time, the industry convinces itself this cycle will be the one that actually changes things. It never quite does.

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Audeze MM-500 headphone review: A microscope on vocals

Audeze MM-500 headphone review: A microscope on vocals

Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. The MM-500 headphone is the result of years of back and forth between 18-time Grammy-award-winning engineer Manny Marroquin and Californian audio company Audeze.

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Google Says Canonical Re-Evaluation Can Take Up to Two Weeks

Google Says Canonical Re-Evaluation Can Take Up to Two Weeks

Google’s guide now sets expectations for how long clustered pages take to re-evaluate after a content fix. Pages generally leave a duplicate cluster faster when the content difference between them is clear. Request Indexing can ask Google to re-evaluate clustered pages, though Google advises saving it for your most important URLs. Google updated its canonicalization

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Anthropic Confronts the Hard Questions About AI Responsibility

Anthropic Confronts the Hard Questions About AI Responsibility

While AI can provide endless answers, Anthropic wants people to keep asking questions about it—specifically, its impact on humans. The AI company has launched a new film, “Hard Questions,” created by Mother and directed by Myles McAuliffe. The work is the latest in Anthropic’s Keep Thinking campaign, which launched in September 2025 and aims to

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UNNI

UNNI

Launched in 2015, Gangnam Unni has become an essential information platform that helps customers make informed decisions by addressing the information imbalance in the aesthetic medical market. Leveraging Korea’s overwhelming achievements in aesthetic medical technology and services, it has rapidly grown in Japan and is expanding to more countries, including Thailand and the United States,

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Google Adds Social Reporting; Mueller Warns Against Markdown

Google Adds Social Reporting; Mueller Warns Against Markdown

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates change what you can measure in Search Console, how you describe products in markup, and what John Mueller thinks about building for AI agents. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Search Console Adds Reports For Social And Video Posts Google is rolling out a new Search Console

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The secret to scaling vibe coding isn’t better prompts

The secret to scaling vibe coding isn’t better prompts

With vibe coding growing in popularity, enterprise organizations need standards and workflows to scale it sustainably. Prompt logs are an essential part of that foundation. They document how AI-generated code came together, making audits, maintenance, and knowledge transfer much easier. Vibe coding uses natural language prompts to generate code. Maintaining a prompt log lets you

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Janosch Abel challenges flashy sports photography by immortalising the repetitive labour that truly shapes an athlete

Janosch Abel challenges flashy sports photography by immortalising the repetitive labour that truly shapes an athlete

The images frame moments of pain, intensity and concentration that often go unseen – a runner squatting mid-trail to catch some air, a climber untaping their hands to nurse chalk covered calluses and sores. They purposefully dwell on the mundane, passing moments that are considered “visually unspectacular” in sports, says Janosch. But in deciding to turn

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How To Optimize PPC Accounts With Less Search Term Visibility – Ask A PPC

How To Optimize PPC Accounts With Less Search Term Visibility – Ask A PPC

This month’s Ask A PPC tackles a very real concern: Search term visibility keeps shrinking on some platforms while other platforms continue to maintain more transparency. Advertisers still need to understand, diagnose, and optimize campaigns even when they do not have full search term signals. “With search terms increasingly unavailable, what technical signals should advertisers

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The Home Depot sees Hispanic market as a ‘huge growth opportunity’

The Home Depot sees Hispanic market as a ‘huge growth opportunity’

While The Home Depot is not a sports equipment or sports apparel retailer, its consumer base has given it ample reason to develop a comprehensive retail media strategy around the World Cup. Customers often come to The Home Depot and other home improvement retailers to solve a problem or take on a project — especially

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Koto’s new type foundry is redefining the rules of font design

Koto’s new type foundry is redefining the rules of font design

Global creative studio Koto has launched CcType, a brand new type foundry built for the contemporary design world. Leveraging years of experience designing bespoke type systems for iconic brands, Koto’s latest venture is defined by versatility and high craft – a response to the ever-evolving demands of modern branding. Koto isn’t new to the game,

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Google’s New Merchant Listing Structured Data Improves SEO

Google’s New Merchant Listing Structured Data Improves SEO

Google made a major change to their Merchant Listing structured data requirements in addition to adding clarification on how to use structured data to indicate how long a sale prices will last. In total, there are three new additions but the biggest change by far is the addition of a new Category property. While it’s

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CBS Mornings Grows Ahead of Holiday

CBS Mornings Grows Ahead of Holiday

CBS Mornings was the only morning show to see growth in total viewers and in the Adults 25-54 demo during the week leading up to America’s 250th Independence Day. CBS Mornings was joined in the growth territory by ABC News’ Good Morning America, which finished in the plus column in the advertiser-coveted demo. Meanwhile, GMA

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Visual Identity for a Literary Festival

Visual Identity for a Literary Festival

A visual identity inspired by the physical act of analog writing, where the letter, chance, and imperfection become the foundation of a contemporary visual language for literature.

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The Application Gap Has Always Been There. We Just Kept Paying for It.

The Application Gap Has Always Been There. We Just Kept Paying for It.

Learning the PESO Model® and implementing it are not synonymous. Shelly Verkamp explains how the Spin Sucks university partnership remedies the application gap. The post The Application Gap Has Always Been There. We Just Kept Paying for It. first appeared on Spin Sucks.

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The Web Is Eating Itself And Your Metrics Look Fine

The Web Is Eating Itself And Your Metrics Look Fine

That is not a moral claim, and it is not a warning about getting caught. It is a description of a mechanism that several groups of researchers have now documented from different angles, and once you see how the pieces fit together, a good deal of confusing behavior in AI search stops being confusing. I

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You’re using AI to scale the wrong part of GTM

You’re using AI to scale the wrong part of GTM

AI has taken over go-to-market, and that’s not hyperbole. In Salesforce’s 2026 State of Sales report, 87% of sales organizations said they now use some form of AI for prospecting, forecasting, lead scoring, or drafting emails. More than half use it specifically to prospect. Marketing isn’t far behind. Open your inbox, and you can feel

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Koto launches CCType foundry to create typefaces that meet the demands of modern brands

Koto launches CCType foundry to create typefaces that meet the demands of modern brands

The foundry has launched with a clear framework and ambition from Koto – to fill a gap in the market for typefaces that are shaped by how brands are operating in 2026. “Koto comes at typography from the reality of execution,” says Jowey Roden, chief creative officer at Koto. “We’re not just looking at type in

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YouTube Moves Ahead of Spotify As UK’s Top Podcast Service

YouTube Moves Ahead of Spotify As UK’s Top Podcast Service

YouTube has become the top podcast platform in the UK, surpassing Spotify for the first time on record, according to Edison Research. Among weekly podcast listeners aged 15 and over, 29% now cite YouTube as their preferred service, compared to 28% for Spotify. The one-point gap is quite small, and Edison describes the outcome as

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