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Google has announced the completion of its spam update rollout, which began on March 5, alongside a core update. The spam update, which took approximately two weeks to deploy fully, targeted scaled content production, expired domain misuse, and authority abuse. The core update, which incorporates the “Helpful Content” evaluation into the core algorithm, is still ongoing and is expected to take around four total weeks to complete. Spam Update Rollout Completed On March 20 at 6:09 PDT, Google confirmed that the spam update rollout had concluded. The announcement came via an update to Google’s Search Status Dashboard. With this update,…

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Over the past two decades in the news industry, we’ve witnessed shrinking newsrooms, mass redundancies and the steady decline of regional news on a global scale. With fewer opportunities for steady employment in this undeniably bleak landscape, freelancing is becoming the new normal for prospective journalists.Squarely in the remit of the digital gig economy, freelancers can expect to “rise and grind” in this new reality. Some may publish their own content using new monetisation platforms like Patreon and Substack, while also hustling for more traditional commissions from the established national and trade press.This is a massive social, cultural and economic…

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During its new earbuds announcement event, Nothing shared that it plans to add Chat-GPT support to its earbuds. The feature will be tied to Nothing Phones, so users with iPhones or other Android handsets will be stuck using Siri or Google Assistant instead. If you want to take advantage of Open AI’s assistant, you’ll need to wait. A Nothing spokesperson told The Verge that the feature will roll out slowly to the Nothing Phone (2) starting on April 18th, followed by the Phone (1) and Phone (2a) a few weeks later. The company’s blog post also states that this is…

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NEW YORK – A Manhattan jury has found crypto trader Avi Eisenberg guilty of fraud and market manipulation for his $110 million heist from decentralized finance protocol Mango Markets in October 2022.Eisenberg was arrested in Puerto Rico in December 2022 and charged with commodities fraud, commodities manipulation, and wire fraud for the scheme. He will be sentenced on July 29 by New York District Court Judge Arun Subramanian. Eisenberg faces up to 20 years in federal prison for his crimes.During his trial in New York’s Southern District, Eisenberg’s defense attempted to frame his trades on Mango Markets as “successful and…

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C’mon, people.Weak BondsMovie fans are maybe getting a little too desperate to see who the next 007 will be. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a fake, partially AI-generated movie trailer with Henry Cavill as James Bond — a fan favorite to succeed Daniel Craig — has racked up millions of views on YouTube.Misleadingly billed as “Bond 26 – First Trailer,” the fake casts Margot Robbie as Cavill’s co-star, and envisions — in another common fantasy pick — Christopher Nolan as director, according to the suspiciously ChatGPT-sounding synopsis in the video description.Created by KH Studio, which has dozens of fake trailers…

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A few months ago, headlines flared that Peter Kaestner had seen his 10,000th bird species. This could have been anticlimactic, as Kaestner has been renowned for years among birders for traveling worldwide and seeing more species than anyone. However, the feat gained drama just before Kaestner’s milestone when Jason Mann, so non-renowned that few birders had ever heard of him, suddenly revealed that he, too, was approaching 10,000 species seen, and even claimed to have reached the milestone mere hours before Kaestner did. Mann ultimately was found to have padded his list a bit and withdrew his claim, but for…

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Within three years, over 50% of the U.S. working population will be freelancers or running a side … [+] hustlegetty Did you know that by the year 2027, over half of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers? Whether full-time or as a side hustle alongside a main job, the gig economy is rapidly taking over the workplace, and it is evident that this is not only occurring in the United States, but also in other countries around the world. “The ‘gig economy’ accounts for up to 12% of the global labor market,” the World Bank said in a 2023 statement—”much…

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A video of a young man talking about his work as a plumber and the money he makes went viralHe expressed delight over the money he makes from his work, adding that he sees no reason to go to the universityMany people who reacted to the video shared varied opinions on his comments, with some disagreeing with himA young man, who works as a plumber, is trending online after he opened up on his decision not to pursue tertiary education.A young plumber bragged about his job Photos: @opokuprince360.Source: UGCIs plumbing profitable?In a video on TikTok, the man, who was busy…

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As a small business owner myself, if there is one thing I believe, it is that small businesses have no choice but to embrace digital marketing.Canadian small businesses are facing an unprecedented confluence of averse factors today. The long-standing ripple effects of the pandemic, an impacted economy, decreased consumer spending and interest rate hikes are impacting these businesses more than ever. It’s a time when every dollar spent carries greater significance, often marking the difference between survival and closure.During this sink or swim time period, traditional marketing tactics like public relations, though tried and true, require consistency and financial resources…

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