Google wants to be the place where people shop, not just the place where they search for products. On 15 October 2026, it started rolling out Google Universal Cart in the US, a single shopping cart that works across Google…
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Sarvam AI is in talks to raise $250 to 300 million (about ₹2,800 crore) at a valuation of around $3 billion, according to an Economic Times report published on October 13, 2026. If the deal closes, the Bengaluru startup’s valuation…
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The PHP 8.6 release date is 19 November 2026. Three release candidates come first, starting with RC3, which was scheduled for 8 October 2026. If you run PHP, Laravel or WordPress sites, you have about six weeks to test your…
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WordPress 7.1.3 is out, and you should install it today. The WordPress core team released it on October 6, 2026 as a maintenance and security release that patches seven vulnerabilities and fixes four bugs. The official announcement is direct: “Because…
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The Google AI content guidance on Search Central changed on October 1, 2026. The page now says it is “critical to manually factcheck and review all AI-generated content for accuracy and trustworthiness before publishing.” The update also spells out that…
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AI agents no longer just answer questions. They write code, call APIs, browse websites and, since this week, can even complete checkouts on Shopify stores. The more an agent can do, the more damage it can cause when it goes…
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On 22 September 2026, WordPress released WordPress 7.1.2, a security update that fixes a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-87902. The flaw affects almost ten years of WordPress releases, from 4.7.0 through 7.1.1. Attackers began probing websites for it on the…
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WooCommerce 11.1 was released on 1 September 2026 with 561 pull requests from 77 contributors. It is backwards compatible but runs a database update, and a few of its changes quietly affect custom plugins, headless builds and REST integrations (official…
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India’s digital payments market is set to double. It will go from $3.6 trillion in FY24 to $7 trillion by FY30, according to a joint study by Kearney and Amazon Pay. That’s a doubling in six years. It comes on…
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For years, building a website meant optimizing for two audiences: people and search crawlers. In May 2026, Google quietly added a third. Lighthouse shipped a new category called Agentic Browsing that scores how well a website can be read and…
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