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Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 13:15:14

I run a small business in Canada. Oddly, if you search my brand name, my own site doesn’t show up at all on the first page. Instead, Facebook, Instagram, and random sites that link to me outrank me. I’ve submitted my sitemap to GSC, checked indexing, and built branded backlinks—but Google still ignores my homepage. It’s bad because people looking for me are funneled into other platforms where I lose control of the user journey. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this Google punishing small/n

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Age verification doesn’t work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 14:25:22

And just yesterday — June 27 — the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued a devastating decision that opens the door to broad state regulation of adult content, effectively allowing AV laws with minimal constitutional constraint. AV implementation was also scheduled to begin in France in June 2025, but was later halted — though only temporarily. However, it is set to come into effect next month in the UK — July 2025. A lot has happened in the past month: the EU Commission (the executive branch of

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I'm ditching passwords for passkeys for one reason - and it's not what you think

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-10-12 17:47:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Adoption of passkeys is fragmented across sites and devices. Users still need passwords for recovery and new device setup. Phishing protection makes passkeys worth adding, despite confusion. OK. Fine. I've finally decided to embrace passkeys. But why does it feel so icky? As you probably know, passkeys are the tech industry's answer to The Password Problem. Unlike password data, which

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UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-17 17:05:15

In Brief The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to adult content (which is why sites like Bluesky and Reddit have begun checking some users’ ages). To st

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Scientists Discover New Parasitic Wasps Invading the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-18 13:30:52

There are all sorts of cruel parasites out there, and more are being uncovered all the time. Scientists have recently found several invasive species of parasitic wasps that have now landed in the U.S. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Iowa made the discovery. For the first time ever, they detected the presence of two closely related parasitic wasp species previously only found in Europe. Don’t be too personally afraid, though: these wasps only infest other wasps. A was

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Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-20 20:21:32

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We’ve since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program called “Gambler Panel” that bills itself as a “soulless project that is made for profit.” The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim th

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AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 18:11:05

Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing the AI-powered Lovable website creation and hosting platform to generate phishing pages, malware-dropping portals, and various fraudulent websites. The malicious sites created through the platform impersonate large and recognizable brands, and feature traffic filtering systems like CAPTCHA to keep bots out. While Lovable has taken steps to better protect its platform from abuse, as AI-powered site generators increase in number, the barrier to entering cy

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Octopolis and Octlantis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 12:03:59

Settlements of gloomy octopuses in Australia Octopolis and Octlantis are two non-human settlements occupied by gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) in Jervis Bay, on the south coast of New South Wales. The first site, named "Octopolis" by biologists, was found in 2009. Octopolis consists of a bed of shells (mainly scallop shells) in an ellipse shape, 2–3 meters diameter on its longer axis, with a single piece of anthropogenic detritus, believed to be scrap metal, within the site. Octopuses build

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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-09 14:36:46

A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky of Rotherham, UK, was arrested in 2022 based on information received from U.S. law enforcement and charged for stealing log in details of millions of Facebook users, and hacking websites belonging to the government in Yemen, an Israeli news outlet, and organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Al-Mashriky pleaded guilty to the

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‘Weird Looking’ Otter Poo Reveals an Unexpected Role in Parasite Control

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-15 16:00:17

Receiving an unsolicited photo of worm-infested animal poop would make anyone cringe, unless you’re a parasite expert like Katrina Lohan. When a colleague sent her a snapshot of a watery pile of feces with a fire-engine red worm inside, she was instantly intrigued. “She sent this to me and was like, ‘I think this is a parasite, are you interested in studying river otters?’ And I was like, ‘Ooh, I think that’s a parasite too. And yes, I am,’” Lohan, a parasite ecologist who leads the Coastal Dis

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ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 16:19:13

ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications. Federation means that these websites can interact, allowing the humans using them to interact too, despite being registered on different websites. Fo

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The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa

news.ycombinator.com Trupp 2025-11-14 03:22:45

The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa Within Southeast Colombia's Orinoco River basin, a series of massive rocky sandstone mesas, called tepuis, rise up from the dense humid jungle. Since ancient times the cliffs of these mountains were important cultural sites. They served as shelters, navigational way points, communal gathering sites, and as giant canvases for their rock art, for early inhabitants to communicate their mythologies, histories, and exploits. One such stretch of these tepuis, La

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Why Is Web Performance Undervalued?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 11:11:01

Why is Web Performance Undervalued? Web performance is one of those things so fundamental to businesses that you would expect them to absolutely nail it. If consumers care about performance, which seems to be true, then in an efficient, competitive market you would expect businesses to be under immense pressure to optimize it. And yet, poor web performance is ubiquitous. Huge companies across the board are shipping websites and web apps so sluggish that it is killing the web. The economic upsid

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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-11-24 03:00:00

Software that can see opponents through walls. Aimbots that can lock onto other players automatically. Tools that can boost characters’ stats to the max. The world of online game cheats is expansive—with some cheat websites advertising hacks for dozens of PC games—and it’s being driven by an underground economy that’s allegedly raking in millions every year. Over the last two years, a group of computer scientists has been analyzing and mapping the online cheat marketplace, observing what behavi

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Accessibility and the Agentic Web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 18:44:01

Accessibility and the agentic web Posted on Friday, 8 August 2025 by Léonie Watson in Strategy, User experience Imagine being in a department store that sells clothes from multiple brands and having a personal shopping assistant to help you select the clothes you want to buy. As a blind person, that's about the only way it's possible to go clothes shopping, independently at least, but few stores offer such a service, so you resort to shopping online. Except that retail websites are rarely acce

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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 12:11:10

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers know if they can scrape a websites' content or not. Perplexity's official web crawling bots are "PerplexityBot" and "Perplexity-Us

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Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 10:41:05

The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued an unprecedentedly broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular

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Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Site Blocking Order

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 16:41:05

The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued an unprecedentedly broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular

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Ofcom investigates 34 porn sites over age checks

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-12 22:12:49

Ofcom investigates 34 porn sites over age checks 2 hours ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Ofcom is investigating four companies, operating a total of 34 porn sites, over whether they are complying with its new age check requirements. The regulator said on Friday more than 6,000 sites allowing pornography and other adult content would start using "highly effective" tools to verify or estimate whether users were over or under the age of 18. But Ofcom says s

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Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:52:51

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites. The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim the wagering sites are working in partnership with

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Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-12-14 03:46:34

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites. The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim the wagering sites are working in partnership with

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Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 03:52:51

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites. The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim the wagering sites are working in partnership with

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Internet age verification begins rollout, and Apple is set to be dragged into it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-21 09:52:04

The UK has become the first major country to introduce a legal requirement for internet age verification, but it affects all websites and apps worldwide. Additionally, the US has recently revived a bill very similar to the British legislation. While the law was presented as a way to prevent children accessing adult websites, the reality is very different, and we’re already seeing the privacy risks of good intentions being turned into bad legislation – with iMessage and FaceTime in the firing li

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‘Solar Opposites’ Creators on Crafting the Show’s Final Season

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-20 21:00:33

A lively crowd turned up for what may be Solar Opposites‘ last San Diego Comic-Con panel—the animated Hulu sci-fi series will end after its sixth and final season drops October 13. But executive producers Mike McMahan and Josh Bycel told fans they’ll walk away satisfied, even if they also feel like they still want more. “We were starting to write this season when we found out that it was most likely going to be the end,” McMahan said. “And then we were scrambling around panicking, trying to mak

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‘Solar Opposites’ Returns One Last Time This October

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-22 12:00:27

It’s very sad bidding farewell to Solar Opposites, but at least we get one more 10-episode season to enjoy before it wraps up its entertainingly bizarre mix of sci-fi antics, surreal subplots, crass jokes, wacky t-shirts, holiday specials, and sweet lessons about found family. And we won’t have to wait too long: season six hits Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ starting October 13. There’s an official description of the new season as well as a teaser, neither of which tell us much: “Once their alien di

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CRISPR can stop malaria spread by editing a single gene in mosquitos

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 03:30:10

CRISPR gene-editing therapy has shown great potential to treat and even cure diseases, but scientists are now discovering how it can be used to prevent them as well. A team of researchers found a way to edit a single gene in a mosquito that prevented it from transmitting malaria, according to a paper published in Nature. These genetically modified mosquitos could eventually be released into the wild, helping prevent some of the 600,000 malaria deaths that occur each year. Mosquitos infect up to

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The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-22 18:00:00

Beginning today, millions of adults trying to access pornography in the United Kingdom will be required to prove that they are over the age of 18. Under sweeping new online child safety laws coming into force, self-reporting checkboxes that allow anyone to claim adulthood on porn websites will be replaced by age-estimating face scans, ID document uploads, credit card checks, and more. Some of the biggest porn websites—including Pornhub and YouPorn—have said that they will comply with the new rul

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BlackSuit ransomware extortion sites seized in Operation Checkmate

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 20:34:13

Law enforcement has seized the dark web extortion sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the takedown in an email earlier today, saying the authorities involved in the action executed a court-authorized seizure of the BlackSuit domains. Earlier today, the websites on the BlackSuit .onion domains were replaced with seizure banners announ

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It’s not just you: a Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users [U]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-14 21:44:54

Update 7:57 p.m. ET: The issue has been solved, and Cloudflare’s status page says that all systems are operational. If you’ve noticed some internet slowdowns or trouble reaching websites tonight, you’re not alone. Cloudflare has confirmed an issue affecting its popular 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver, which many people rely on for fast and private internet browsing. What’s going on? The company first acknowledged the problem at 22:13 UTC, and began rolling out a fix just minutes later. According

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It’s not just you: a Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-15 03:44:54

If you’ve noticed some internet slowdowns or trouble reaching websites tonight, you’re not alone. Cloudflare has confirmed an issue affecting its popular 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver, which many people rely on for fast and private internet browsing. What’s going on? The company first acknowledged the problem at 22:13 UTC, and began rolling out a fix just minutes later. According to Cloudflare, the issue only affects users relying on 1.1.1.1. Their Gateway and Authoritative DNS services are stil

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Latest Tech News

Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name

Age verification doesn’t work

I'm ditching passwords for passkeys for one reason - and it's not what you think

UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

Scientists Discover New Parasitic Wasps Invading the U.S.

Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine

AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity

Octopolis and Octlantis

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

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Why Is Web Performance Undervalued?

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Accessibility and the Agentic Web

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’

Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Site Blocking Order

Ofcom investigates 34 porn sites over age checks

Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

Internet age verification begins rollout, and Apple is set to be dragged into it

‘Solar Opposites’ Creators on Crafting the Show’s Final Season

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BlackSuit ransomware extortion sites seized in Operation Checkmate

It’s not just you: a Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users [U]

It’s not just you: a Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users

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