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Monday 9 November 2026 Latest

Outlook.com bounces good email, Apple’s agent Siri and more

• Outlook.com and Hotmail are bouncing some good email since 5 November
• Apple reportedly wants Siri to work like an AI agent next year
• Vercel AI Gateway adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at over 1,000 tokens a second
• Meta pauses the new terms that let it crawl business websites
• Ziff Davis lost about 37% of its Google traffic in three months
• Google Analytics Data Manager beta warns about double conversions

and 4 more stories

Sunday 8 November 2026

WordPress 7.1.4 update gap, Shopify bulk access and Antigravity

• WordPress 7.1.4 fix leaves a short gap while it installs
• Shopify apps must now switch on bulk operations before using them
• OpenAI is reportedly building a "claim your business" tool for ChatGPT
• Google Maps adds a Message button for local businesses
• Google Antigravity 2.29 adds agents that keep working in the cloud
• Meta's Muse can now build small apps for you, called Spaces

and 4 more stories

Saturday 7 November 2026

WooCommerce’s PHP 8.1 deadline, WordPress SVG icons and more

• WooCommerce 11.6 will need PHP 8.1 from February 2027
• WordPress 7.2 swaps Dashicons for SVG icons in the admin
• Shopify now shows each app's access and security in the admin
• Google explains how 301 and 302 redirects pass ranking signals
• Google throttles result links, and rank trackers show odd data
• Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes video 30% cheaper

and 6 more stories

Friday 6 November 2026

WooCommerce 11.2.2 security fix, WordPress /random/ and more

• WooCommerce 11.2.2 is a security release, so update your store today
• WordPress 7.2 adds a /random/ URL to every site by default
• Cloudflare shows personal AI agent traffic and lets you block each one
• Netlify will let companies take over accounts on their email domain
• Facebook has 6 million AI "Answers" pages indexed in Google
• Google AI Mode now books plumbers and cleaners in the US

and 5 more stories

Thursday 5 November 2026

Safari’s automatic dark mode, Postman plugins and Siri AI apps

• Safari 27.3 beta can turn light websites dark on its own
• Postman's desktop app added plugins to Claude Code and Codex unasked
• Apple opens Siri AI to every developer in the iOS 27.3 beta
• Google rewrites its help for "Crawled, currently not indexed"
• Gemini and Google AI Mode visit your pages with new user agents
• Microsoft Clarity now shows what AI agents do on your site

and 5 more stories

Wednesday 4 November 2026

PageSpeed scores jump, GitHub blocks a trigger and Gutenberg 24.3

• PageSpeed Insights scores may jump after the Lighthouse 13.6 update
• GitHub will block pull_request_target workflows by default on 2 December
• Search Console shows a strange spike in clicks for some sites
• Google may be testing Search without the AI Mode button
• John Mueller says technical SEO still matters in AI search
• Anthropic's IPO filing warns it may soon hit its AI self-improvement line

and 5 more stories

Tuesday 3 November 2026

ChatGPT merges Chat and Work, Grok Bot limits and DeepSeek

• OpenAI will merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs, with one shared allowance
• Musk says Grok Bot cost too much to run as users hit limits
• DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that watches team chat
• Google won't promise click data in Search Console's AI report
• iOS 27.3 beta should land today with Apple Intelligence in China
• iPhone Duo owners can't change Display Zoom after setup

and 2 more stories

Monday 2 November 2026

WordPress.com free AI agents, Claude’s game rule and more

• WordPress.com lets free sites use ChatGPT or Claude agents in November
• Claude now reportedly refuses to recreate existing video games
• Apple CEO John Ternus says Apple won't ship AI for AI's sake
• AI answers favour big travel brands, BrightEdge study finds
• How macOS 27 makes the touchscreen MacBook Pro easy to tap
• Andrej Karpathy's HackerTube picks videos from Hacker News comments

and 2 more stories

Sunday 1 November 2026

One AI training opt-out for Google and OpenAI, plus Claude Ultra

• Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft back one AI training opt-out
• Anthropic renames Claude Max 20x to Ultra and drops the five-hour limit
• Google's Gary Illyes says AI has made fake Googlebots worse
• Vercel Data Cache becomes Runtime Cache, and reads and writes get billed
• DoorDash says AI shopping agents sent only a few hundred orders
• Cloudflare's new DNS page is now the only one, and it can change record types

and 3 more stories

Saturday 31 October 2026

WordPress 7.1.4 flaw under attack, Bing’s AI controls and more

• WordPress 7.1.4 upgrade flaw is now under attack, so update today
• Bing lets you block AI training but still appear in AI answers
• OpenAI's hidden "Aura" check can block your site from ChatGPT
• Reddit will hide more behind a login as Google traffic falls
• Mistral gives away the weights of its trillion-parameter Large 4
• Vercel Firewall now blocks AI crawlers and AI assistants separately

and 4 more stories