SHA-256 hashing gives way to encryption for Customer Match and enhanced conversions uploads. What happens to files that advertisers already hash is not stated.

Business users' preview page still shows the train sentence on Oct 18, a day after Meta told The Verge it clarified the terms. Which text binds on October 30?

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Tuesday's grid is a gentle one, and most of it lives in the long stretch between a first click and a signed contract.

Citizen Lab traced zero-click spyware on 45 Al Jazeera devices to targeted ads from Discover-Tech, a vendor Google had listed since 2020 and has now cut off.

DynamoDB's peak rose 27% to 192 million requests a second and ElastiCache 53% to 2.3 quadrillion a day. Where did growth accelerate, and where did it stall?

ChatGPT is testing shopping ads at the bottom of results that show products from one website, with the site’s favicon and name above grey product cards showing name and price.

Get journalist outreach pitches seen and understood by improving targeting, email authentication, subject lines, and the details AI inbox summaries pick up.

Bad clicks, broad targeting, slow pages, forgotten content: find the 9 leaks draining your marketing budget and learn how to plug them.

Researchers posted about a made-up concept on sites AI search tools cite. Four English-web tools cited it within a week. Other topics mostly didn't land.

A restriction period for Meta ads about social issues, elections, and politics is coming to the US. Here's what you need to know...

What a model learned from fictional biographies complicates the promise to make it remember your brand.

A Chinese AI lab opened its search engine to developers. Each result carries a page-level authority tier, and DeepSeek says it filters GEO manipulation.

Each episode reads the Landline newsletter aloud on Spotify and YouTube. The site also now files stories in five sections. What sits where, and how to listen?

Tracked sites vanished from the top 10 on 58.6% of poisoned pages, a hit to every agency ranking report. Can vendors filter it out, or is the data now broken?

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Meta removed training from the crawling clause in its upcoming Commercial Terms. The permission to crawl sites tied to business users is still in place.

Text on 80 of 545 WhatsApp help pages told a support bot to skip regulators and GDPR. WhatsApp blames a bug. How long were the orders live, and who read them?

Draft runs 52 pages with a 28-question contract checklist for cloud providers; comments close on November 6. Which parallel-use fees survive the 2027 cutoff?

Only 7% of 885 marketers run fully unified measurement, and 10% almost always run omnichannel. Why has reported growth cooled as capabilities keep piling up?

Only 6.5% of 184 surveyed marketers measure AI returns against benchmarks, yet 51.1% now run agents. What happens when automation outruns the proof it works?

APAC campaigns using retail data saw 125% higher ROAS and EMEA 150%, per platform data excluding Walmart DSP. What do the June 2025-June 2026 figures measure?