New AI browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity aren’t about to replace Chrome any time soon. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take notice.
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Page Builder by SiteOrigin WordPress vulnerability rated 8.8/10 affects up to 500,000 websites.
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Before overhauling your CRO for AI, focus on fundamentals. Clear messaging, strong UX, and technical hygiene still do the heavy lifting.

Google has published a new help document titled About the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and UCP-powered checkout feature on Google. This was published in the Google Merchant Center help documentation section.

Google has updated or is updating a number of Google Ads and Google Merchant Center policies. This goes across alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling and games and government documents and services policies.

Google updated its image SEO best practices and Google Discover documentation to clarify how Google picks a preferred image thumbnail for Google Search and Google Discover. Google wrote it “uses both schema.org markup and the og:image meta tag as sources when determining image thumbnails in Google Search and Discover."

Critical vulnerability in WordPress User Registration & Membership plugin enables unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrator role.
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VRC Non-Skip ads are now globally available in Google Ads, giving advertisers AI-optimized, non-skippable reach on YouTube CTV screens.