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Google's June 2026 spam update ran for roughly 49 hours, finishing on 26 June, and applies to all languages globally. Five specific spam tactics were in scope: scaled content abuse, cloaking, sneaky redirects, scraping and hidden text.

Fraudulent DMCA takedown notices are getting real, live pages deindexed from Google Search before any verification takes place, with two confirmed attacks against the same site logged in May and June 2026. The notice-and-takedown system under 17 U.S.C.

A randomised field experiment published on SSRN found Google AI Overviews reduce outbound organic clicks by 39.8% and lift zero-click searches by 34.5%.

Chrome 146.0.7680.177/178 fixes a WebGPU use-after-free in Dawn after Google confirmed exploitation in the wild.

Two juries in three days found Meta and Google liable for harm to children. New Mexico awarded $375 million after Meta failed to protect users from predators. Los Angeles awarded $6 million finding both companies designed addictive platforms that damaged mental health.

Google is finalizing financing for a $5+ billion data center in Texas leased to AI firm Anthropic. The 2,800-acre Nexus Data Centers campus targets 500MW capacity by late 2026, expandable to 7.7GW.

The unsecured 12-month bridge loan signals lenders expect OpenAI's public listing to happen within the year, giving SoftBank liquidity to settle the debt.

Barnaby Joyce’s ‘cattle’ comments aren’t a gaffe. They are a calculated response to a structural breach in the Liberal Party’s right flank.