Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect what Google considers spam, what happens when you report it, and what agentic search looks like in practice. Here’s what matters for you and your work.

Fossil fuel companies, farms, unions and business groups are taking the state Department of Environmental Quality to court over a program they call “economically infeasible.” Oregon’s ambitious ...

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So you thought you’d just read that webpage and then go back to the previous page? A bold assumption. All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s ...

It's been a while since Google has come out with a new search spam policy and penalty to accompany it with and now we have a new one, "back button hijacking." Back button hijacking is something many ...

Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy. Back button hijacking occurs when a site prevents users from ...

Vice President JD Vance said that the American negotiating team was leaving Pakistan after 21 hours of talks with no peace deal with Iran. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/Getty Images Iran survived five ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – Idaho Falls School District 91 will be expanding its online school offerings this fall to help meet growing demand for more flexible education options. Students and parents ...

Governments cannot reach their climate goals without rethinking humanity’s relationship to the Earth. That is the overarching takeaway from a new paper published today in Frontiers in Science by a ...

Whenever my family goes out of town, we have a dog sitter come by to check on our dogs. One challenge I always have is showing guests how to use our smart home. For our Level Lock Pro, I find it ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A late amendment to Tennessee’s sweeping school voucher expansion bill is reshaping the debate at the State Capitol—reducing the size of the program, adding new reporting ...

PROVO, Utah — BYU alumni are speaking out on behalf of a beloved multicultural program that’s been eliminated by the university. It’s called ‘SOAR’, standing for ‘Summer of Academic Refinement,’ and ...