Calif frequently publishes our insulting investigation and work, but we alternatively don't diagram much notice to the protective activity we do — assisting open origin projects alongside remediation, place generation, cryptographic improvements, and inner engineering projects we transport out for our clients.

Earlier this year, we reported several vulnerabilities, frequently alongside alongside suggested patches to OpenBSD. One traced rear approximately 37 years to the first BSD sources, anywhere a shared recollection attachment oppose was defined as a signed 16-bit short. Repeatedly forking a procedure alongside shared recollection attachment records could shove that oppose former its maximum value of 32,767, causing it to cover to a negative value. This entire figure overflow could guide to a use-after-free via a competition condition; blended alongside a distinct out-of-bounds compose in the kernel, it allowed local privilege escalation to root. The issues were addressed in errata 026 and 018, respectively.

The exploit

We managed to get local base in OpenBSD alongside KARL / SMAP / SMEP enabled without the use of an data disclosure exposure via the following path:

• Map 127 SysV shared recollection segments, unmap them via munmap(), and fork 259 processes to cover the shared recollection nexus figure to -32,643.
• Perform heap grooming and layout, using metrics from sysctl(KERN_MALLOCSTATS) (such as kb_total and kb_totalfree) to track allocations and decide whenever new pages are allocated.
• Win the competition circumstance using IPC_RMID in one procedure during attaching a new size-confused shared recollection section in a helper process.
• Align IP socket allocations and set IP_MULTICAST_TTL to a non-default value of 2 to allocate a persistent 16-byte struct ip_moptions. Its final term packs two 16-bit counters: imo + 12 = imo_num_memberships | imo_max_memberships << 16.
• Trigger the conditional -1 out-of-bounds compose to overwrite the two the figure of memberships and maximum memberships fields.
• close() the socket to traverse the collection members, triggering atomic decrements that modify the PTE self-referential mapping twice, switching it from person to supervisor accessible mapping, and achieving kernel code implementation by overwriting a predictable kernel pointer.
• Clean up shared recollection accounting and reconstruct the overwritten kernel pointer to get a base shell.

That's the short of the matter, the longer type is more interesting, including the former of the vulnerability, as a abbreviated shm_nattch can be traced rear ~37 years ago, in the first BSD sources.

Taking a stage back, this exposure ended up getting code implementation via a compose what anywhere primitive, anywhere the compose was caused by a TAILQ_REMOVE, the what was our userland recollection mapping that was made supervisor manner accessible to bypass SMAP/SMEP, and the anywhere was a predictable kernel pointer location.

Exploit mitigation

While OpenBSD's KARL relinks the kernel binary to randomize the two function and data addresses, the kernel's recollection allocators remain deterministic. Both the boot-time allocator and the best-fit allocator deficiency basis location randomization. Consequently, first footwear allocations consistently district at predictable locations throughout boots on the identical hardware. When these predictable construction allocations merge function pointers, they rotate into ideal targets for exploitation. For instance, the utilize reliably targets the lo0 and enc0 ioctl handlers, overwriting one to acquire authority stream and using the another to reconstruct the overwritten pointer.

Aside from the aforementioned errata fixes, there's multiple another approaches that can be taken to either eliminate or decrease the likelihood of those avenues being used again.

Firstly, we can execute safe-unlinking, a method that checks doubly connected catalog invariants before performing the unlink recollection writes. If the invariants are violated, afterward a suitable abort() or panic() is called, depending on if person manner or kernel mode, preventing recollection misconduct from occurring. An example implementation is here. FreeBSD and NetBSD have an implementation of safe-unlinking in their sys/queue.h implementation.

Secondly, we can randomize the self-referential PTE map allocation location so that the targeted nuclear decrement locations would not be possible. This is done by using a random byte (.openbsd.randomdata) and selecting a PML4 slot (320 + (random_byte & 127)) at footwear time, and installing the recursive admission at that location. The PTE_BASE definition becomes a runtime expression, yielding bases from 0xffffa00000000000 through 0xffffdf8000000000 at 512-GiB intervals. An example implementation is here. In case randomization is not suitable, another options power suffice, specified as marking the PTE as read-only, and changing CR0.WP during modification.

Thirdly, the kernel allocator can be made non-deterministic using two approaches; by randomizing the basis address anywhere recollection allocations happen at footwear time, and additionally randomizing the allocation command at run time. The basis location randomization is efficiently liberated as the gap it creates can motionless be used afterward on; during runtime randomization does incur several overhead during allocation - it may be imaginable that additional in-depth allocator changes could alleviate this impact. Either method would be adequate to interrupt the predictable pointer location without additional vulnerabilities, be it application or hardware.

Furthermore, there are existing and upcoming compiler features that can be used to mitigate against complete vulnerabilities, from array limits sanitizer (a subset of Undefined Behaviour sanitizer) which can eliminate out of limits fixed size gathering accesses. Calif has suggested to FreeBSD that the gathering limits sanitizer may create a helpful utilize mitigation that can be enabled in publish builds, alongside alongside privately reporting 21 issues that the gathering limits sanitizer would have caught; several alongside local privilege escalation safety impact. An upcoming compiler characteristic that can be used to assistance mitigate against heap issues is Alloc Tokens, which can be used to isolate pointer containing allocations from non-pointer allocations. This isolation can create overflows from the non-pointer containing allocation much additional difficult to utilize by preventing pointer access, alongside alongside making exposure classes akin Use-after-Free unable to use the contrary category of allocation as the replacement recollection allocation.

Since its inception, OpenBSD has consistently championed proactive safety through origin code auditing, the replacement of insecure APIs, advanced password hashing, cryptography, privilege separation, sandboxing, alongside alongside recollection safety via ASLR and W^X; frequently environment the norm for scheme and network hardening.

By proactively hardening, and adapting new and existing mitigation options, we can frequently systematically neutralize complete classes of exploitation primitives; or at the extremely least, addition the attacker's disbursal (i.e. additional period investment, additional vulnerabilities needed to utilize an issue, discover substitute avenues, etc). Investing in protective improvements before vulnerabilities are actively targeted raises the bar for attackers, assisting justify sturdy safety and long-term resilience. In the age of AI-assisted exposure discovery, mitigating against complete exposure classes, blended alongside expanding assault complexity lone becomes additional critical.

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When I told my finest companion I was quitting my Wall Street lawful career to expend a twelvemonth camping and exploring the American West, she looked at me aghast and said, "You're joking, right?"

Her reply wasn't surprising. I hadn't exactly been honest alongside her, or myself, concerning how much I longed for a extremely distinct existence than the one I was living.

At the time, we were 34 years old, and during the previous 16 years of friendship, our lives had run parallel tracks, studying endeavor in college, afterward following demanding careers in East Coast cities. While we'd seen all another through heartbreaks and upheavals, this was additional than that. This was a important detour, and as she looked at me, her visage flush alongside confusion, I wasn't certain the detour was item our companionship would survive.

For years, our lives aligned

Erin and I met freshman twelvemonth in college as scholarship runners on a extremely rivalrous Division I Track Team. While our four years there weren't exactly conducive to honesty or vulnerability, it bonded us in a profound way.

After graduation, we shifted our notice and run toward corporate careers, supporting all another in these often-stressful pursuits. With our finances closely aligned, we traveled, dined, and indulged at the spa together. More than that, during those years, Erin became my anchor. She's the one I called in the center of the night whenever the man I idea I was going to wed walked out, and the one who made me chuckle harder than anyone else, particularly amid life's disappointments.

Yet, by our first 30s, we'd lone always let ourselves be so susceptible alongside all other. While I frequently shared my frustrations alongside the strain of my career, I never talked concerning alternatives, particularly one as drastic as quitting to campsite and live out of a used car.

I concerned that taking a distinct way would end our friendship

When I decided to discontinue and plunge toward a extremely distinct life, Erin wasn't the lone individual who questioned this choice, but she was the most important. Plus, now living off my savings, I could no longer oversee many activities at the center of our friendship.

When Erin came to assistance group up my apartment, she continued to province skepticism concerning my scheme to live for a during without a plan. Thinking concerning the infinity sign whenever we stated goodbye, I wasn't certain we'd always encounter rear at the center.

To my surprise, she showed up for me in unexpected ways

During the first days of my trip, Erin began asking for updates on how it was going, and I began sharing details. The archetypal night I camped alone, I sent her a photo of my shelter overlooking the Colorado River and confessed how frightened I was, since notwithstanding my plans to expend a twelvemonth camping, I'd never really camped by myself before that night. She responded alongside the identical enthusiasm and encouragement that had buoyed me for years.

These conversations continued complete the months that followed. When mediocre preparedness on a trail run landed me in a stranger's car for the night, she was the one I called to recount the narrative and chuckle complete my mistakes. And on her birthday, I sent her a celebratory photo from a 14,000-foot peak. It wasn't that she motionless had questions concerning what, exactly, I was doing alongside my life; it was that, at several point, she let go of her hesitations and began trying to comprehend my motivations.

This culminated alongside her petition to associate me for a backpacking trip — item she'd never done. We spent two nights in Arizona's Superstition Mountains, anywhere my comfort in the wilderness conflicted alongside her tentativeness. And although we had fun, whenever she questioned whether I understood how to peruse a map as we searched for a h2o source, I was certain I'd never do item akin that alongside her again.

Of course, I did, many times over, since through the friction, this fact surfaced: We'd continually been extremely distinct people, and now, we were fair living in those differences. The difficulty of that, and her willingness to clasp it, brought us nearer than ever.

Over the years, as I became additional honest concerning who I was, she, too, became additional honest concerning who she was. A decade later, our lives motionless appearance extremely different, and still, Erin is my anchor.

For company recruiters akin Martha Heller, asking questions akin those surrounding White House media administrator Katie Zacharia's lawful credentials is par for the course.

When a backdrop inspect unsuccessful to verify an administrator candidate's university flat a few years ago, Heller inquired concerning the discrepancy. The candidate, who was being considered for a job at a California coverage company, claimed a flood at his academy had destroyed the records from the twelvemonth he graduated. Skeptical, Heller called the college and learned that no specified event had occurred.

"It was akin detective work," she said, adding that the issue wasn't whether the applicant had a university degree. It was that he misrepresented his learning and afterward doubled downward whenever questioned, she said.

White House controversy

Zacharia's self-described lawful occupation has been the topic of serious scrutiny in latest days following her project as White House media secretary. When asked by a newsman what province she passed the bar exam in, she responded, "When I moved to China."

Business Insider reviewed records for all 50 states and the District of Columbia and established no evidence that Zacharia had been admitted to any province bar in the US following she graduated alongside a law flat from Pepperdine University in 2011.

Zacharia has since defended calling herself a lawyer, and stated that following failing the bar exam the archetypal time, she did not obtain it a second time. She stated she consulted alongside group inside the lawful site "for a extremely lengthy time" and was told it would be satisfactory to call herself a attorney "and provision lawful analysis, not lawful advice."

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung stated before this week that Zacharia "is uniquely qualified and whip astute to assistance communicate the American group concerning all the awesome things President Trump and his Administration have been doing, and she volition do an amazing job as Press Secretary."

Vetting résumés

One of a recruiter's jobs is to vet a candidate's background. Research suggests it's not rare for candidates to exaggerate their credentials.

Some 37% of Americans stated they've put inaccurate data on their résumés, according to a June report from Novorésumé, an online résumé-building service. Nearly 7% stated they'd claimed a degree, certification, or another credential they didn't possess, during 6.1% stated they'd listed a job that didn't be or was substantially fabricated. The findings are according to a May study of 2,000 US adults.

Brian Fink, a managing partner at tech recruiting resolute The ReWork Group, can relate. Last year, a applicant for a elder promotion job at a cybersecurity business was on the verge of being hired whenever a backdrop inspect unsuccessful to verify that he'd worked for a business listed as a former director on his résumé and LinkedIn profile.

Fink stated he gave the applicant an chance to provision evidence supporting his claim, but the man refused.

"I had no choice but to rescind the offer," stated Fink. "If you're consenting to lie concerning your education, what alternatively are you consenting to lie about?"

Background checks

Recruiters typically delay until a job applicant is a finalist to behavior a backdrop check since the project is time-consuming and costly. They additionally lean to clasp off contacting references first on to evade tipping off the person's current director that they're job hunting. Early in the process, though, several recruiters volition appearance for possible red flags by probing inconsistencies or gaps in candidates' activity histories.

Doug Johnson, CEO of administrator hunt resolute Valor Partners, stated he asks candidates at the end of an discussion if there's item embarrassing or possibly damaging in their former that power arrive up during a backdrop or citation check. He tells them that disclosing it now gives them a chance to location the matter alongside a prospective employer, during discovering it afterward could disbursal them the job.

Most candidates say there's nothing to be concerned about, stated Johnson. But several subsequently autumn off the radar, and others abruptly study receiving a lift or finding a improved chance elsewhere.

"It worries group who have a conscience," he said.

The abrupt disruption to Ukraine's admission to military-grade Starlink services this week shows the risks of overly relying on any sole platform, particularly one beyond Kyiv's control, for mission-critical battlefield communications, Ukrainian soldiers, officials, and defence companies told Business Insider.

With those risks forefront of mind, Ukrainians are operating to diversify military-related communications platforms beyond Starlink.

Ukrainian officials and soldiers were amazed on Wednesday by an unexpected disruption to Starshield, SpaceX's dedicated moon network for armed forces services. Defense ministry sources stated speeds were restricted complete 100 miles per hour, although several units informed a defeat of connectivity at speeds as low as 45 mph.

Services appeared to have been at smallest partially restored by Thursday. The complete degree of the disruption remains unclear, but the event has remaining several Ukrainians emotion uneasy.

Yehor Cherniev, delegate chairman of the Ukrainian parliament's national security, defense, and intellect committee, told Business Insider that the disruption underscores the risks of relying on a sole communications platform. He stated Kyiv is operating to diversify its sources, but declined to define how.

Yuriy, an authoritative alongside Ukraine's National Guard, told Business Insider that his units use Starshield to support drone operations, and multiple missions were spoiled during the disruption. He asked to be identified lone by his archetypal name for safety purposes.

Yuriy stated that during Starlink services are useful, the disruption exposes their unreliability. He stated he would try to discover substitute communications systems.

Alternatives to Starlink could be difficult to find, though. Eutelsat, a large French moon operator, saw its shares surge following this week's disruption, but Ukrainians say there is nothing alternatively fairly akin what SpaceX offers.

"There is no operating substitute to Starlink," stated Dimko Zhluktenko, a serviceman alongside Ukraine's 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment, calling it "an outstanding product."

"No straightforward competitor comes close," he told Business Insider, adding that "Europe has nothing comparable at this flat of battlefield readiness."

SpaceX did not react to requests for comment from Business Insider this week.

The tech has been unified into systems specified as Perennial Autonomy's Hornet drones, as fine as Ukrainian naval drones used to attack Russian targets in the Black Sea, among others.

Many Ukrainian defence companies have unified Starlink services into their broader infrastructure, equal if their products don't necessarily depend on it for operations.

Some firms, specified as SkyFall, creator of the extensively used P1-SUN interceptor drone, told Business Insider that they have developed their own communication methods or use substitute systems to evade scenarios anywhere a sole innovation exterior Ukrainian authority could rotate into a important item of failure, as it did this week.

"Depending on a sole resolution is extremely risky. Especially if you don't have complete authority complete it," a spokesman for Wild Hornets, the resolute rearward the popular Sting interceptor drone, told Business Insider. "Especially whenever it comes to item as crucial on the battlefield as communications."

The spokesman stated this is "exactly why our ecosystem is built about our own communications innovation and is open to assorted solutions whenever it comes to net connectivity."

For anyone operating alongside technologies that are dominated by a sole provider, the risks are clear, stated the caput of hardware investigation and betterment at BlueBird Tech, a defence resolute that makes drones and robots. They told Business Insider that Starlink has practically no competitors since of its coverage, cost, availability, and comfort of use.

BlueBird Tech uses Starlink services but is trying to evade tying its products entirely to any sole technology. "We're actively exploring ways to current redundancy and possibly substitute these components in the future," they said, speaking anonymously because of safety concerns.

They stated that possible workarounds contain LTE or 5G technology, mesh networks alongside relay points, and laser communications. "Research teams about the earth are operating on these technologies," they said, "although none of them have to be seen as a worldwide replacement for Starlink throughout all operational scenario."

When the disruption archetypal occurred on Wednesday, several Ukrainian and abroad officials initially blamed SpaceX, led by Elon Musk. However, the world's richest man stated on X on Wednesday that since Starshield is operated by the US government, any limits on speed would be a decision for the Pentagon or President Donald Trump.

A elder US authoritative told Business Insider on Thursday that "no specified petition was always made by" Trump. Reuters reported that the command came from inner the White House.

Starlink has delivered Kyiv an crucial battlefield advantage, particularly since SpaceX cracked downward on Moscow's ability to use the terminals before this year. The system, however, does not activity in Russia, so Ukraine is constricted to using its services complete its own district and Russian-occupied lands.

Ukraine has been unable to use Starlink for its long-range drone strikes that have wreaked havoc on Russian energy sites. Trump has pushed Kyiv to halt its attacks as he attempts to use Russian oil to lower gas prices.

Ukraine has established itself facing mounting force from the US, formerly a top supporter, as it continues to grapple alongside Russian missile and drone strikes amid serious shortages of critical air defence interceptors. The Starlink outage has lone compounded Kyiv's anxieties as it anticipates yet another durable winter.

"Starlink is a important cardstock on the battlefield," Zhluktenko said. "You can combat without it — equal successfully — as the Russians show, but small effectively, at higher cost, and alongside changeless communication headaches, complete all for unmanned systems."

TL;DR

• StarSkirmish is a benchmark anywhere LLMs compose bots for StarCraft: Brood War
• Each LLM gets one hr to compose a Protoss bot in C++, which is afterward evaluated against another LLMs' bots and established individual written bots
• StarSkirmish tests lengthy horizon reasoning and agentic coding as LLMs must merge learnings from custom games to enhance their StarCraft bot

StarSkirmish Bench v0.2

The StarSkirmish Bench evaluates how powerful of a StarCraft bot can all LLM compose stated 1 hr of partition clock time. v0.2 updates StarSkirmish Bench v0.1 alongside flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, all operating in its lab's 1st gathering CLI harness.

An LLM’s mark reflects its win charge against a roster of rivalrous individual written bots and demo bots.

GPT-6 Astra is the top scoring StarSkirmish Bench v0.2 LLM, a apparent stage onward of GPT-6.1 Sol in second. Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 are functionally tied rearward them, all scoring between 37 and 39.

GPT-6.1 Sol offers uniquely fine value: it is the lone LLM in the most appealing quadrant, scoring second at fair complete a tenth of GPT-6 Astra's disbursal per run.

No Signs of Saturating

The strongest individual written bots are motionless fine onward of all model. Against Stardust, PurpleWave and BananaBrain, the finest model, GPT-6 Astra, wins lone 7% of its games.

New AI Model Highlights

Google and Meta's new flagships substitute v0.1's Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3: Gemini 4 Argon places 3rd, and Muse Wonder Full 7th. GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were covered in v0.1.

AI Model Behaviors

Each run's delegate trace records how it spent its hour. The strongest predictor of a model's mark is how much it practiced against the 7 strongest bots on the roster.

GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon commencement playing these bots first in the hour, during their own bots motionless endure to them. Muse Wonder Full, Claude Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna rarely or never do. Claude Fable 5.1 is the outlier: it scores 37 during practicing nearly entirely against weaker bots.

Results additionally change between runs of the identical model. Gemini 4 Argon varies far additional than the another labs' flagships: its finest and worst runs are 18 points apart, against 9 for GPT-6 Astra and 8 for Claude Opus 5.5.

Implementation Details

Objective

Each LLM writes a Protoss bot in C++ against BWAPI 4.4.0, played on OpenBW. Games are Protoss versus Protoss on three ladder maps: Heartbreak Ridge, Benzene and Destination. A equivalent ends whenever one side's buildings are all destroyed. Games that attain the 60 infinitesimal cap (86,400 frames) are decided as on the BASIL ladder: the higher kills + razings mark wins.

The LLM starts from a skeleton bot that lone mines, alongside the origin code of the three demo bots and two norm bot libraries: FAP, a combat simulator, and BWEM, a map analyzer. Whatever is in its bot directory whenever the hr ends is its final bot, so it has to keep the bot compiling.

The LLM has tools to compile its bot, perform custom games, and peruse all game's summary, copy and its bot's own log. Practice opponents are grouped into tiers: D (the three demo bots), C and B (three mid-ranked individual written bots each), A (BananaBrain, Locutus) and S (Stardust, PurpleWave).

Tournament Setup

Each model's 5 final bots perform all of the 13 roster bots, the 10 rivalrous individual written bots and the 3 demo bots, 6 times on all map, on caller seeds. Unlike v0.1, the LLM bots don't perform all other.

Harness and Reasoning

StarSkirmish Bench v0.1 ran all example in the identical harness at 'high' reasoning. v0.2 runs all example in its lab's 1st gathering CLI harness at the highest reasoning environment it offers.

Every v0.2 harness compacts the model's environment at concerning 250k tokens. When a conversation nears that point, the CLI condenses it and the example carries on. Codex, OpenAI's CLI, for example, gives the GPT models its default 272k token opening and triggers compression formerly 90% filled.

The CLIs' web hunt and web fetch tools are turned off, and the delegate has no another net access. The CLI is installed before the clock starts, and the hr counts from whenever the delegate starts. There is no present tool: the harness collects the bot whenever the period runs out.

Scoring

v0.2 replaces v0.1's Elo ratings alongside plain win rates. A bot's mark is its win charge complete its tournament games, and a model's StarSkirmish Bench mark is the average of its 5 bots' scores, from 0 (every equivalent lost) to 100 (every equivalent won).

Because all bot plays the identical fixed roster, its games don't depend on the another LLM bots in the field. They all run in parallel, and a new model's bots can be scored without replaying anyone else's. A fixed roster additionally keeps the bar the identical complete time, so scores from distinct example generations are additional immediately comparable than Elo ratings fitted inside one field.

Benchmark Correlations

StarSkirmish no longer tracks the most extensively reported evals. It barely moves alongside the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (ρ 0.26), anywhere GPT-6 Astra, the top example here, lone ties for 4th of these 9 models. It has additionally drifted distant from Terminal-Bench 4.0, which it tracked closely in v0.1. Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Muse Wonder Full the two position near the top of Terminal-Bench 4.0 but near the base here.

Tesla’s late-night display in Waco, Texas, certainly gave several corners of the net what it wants. And the gushing praise and wide-eyed reactions on X, a phase already predisposed to absolving Musk of all his sins, were difficult to avoid.

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• Emma Roth

There have been a figure of reports lately of sites struggling to be correctly indexed following a location migration.

I have consulted alongside a few sites on this matter and have developed a theory.

Please cognize that this theory is not item I can demonstrate at this point. I am penning this blog article to create discussion.

My Theory: A Site Migration Triggers A Quality Review

I accept that not lone does a location immigration trigger a new assessment of location norm from Google, but additionally that Google’s standards for location norm have rotate into much stricter.

Let me portion a case I lately investigated.

An Example Of A Site That Google Will Not Index Post Migration

I was hired to do a location norm assessment for a location that blogs on a hobby topic. The location had earlier performed fine and was starting to see a dilatory decrease complete the final twelvemonth or so. Just before I started my review, the location owner reached out to inform me that they had fair started migrating to a new domain.

From what I can see, they did everything correctly. They submitted the change of location in Google Search Console, carefully mapped redirects, updated inner links, ensured Google could crawl the new site, and generated a sitemap for the new domain.

In the Page Indexing Report, 98% of their URLs were reported as not indexed.

Even worse, inspecting any page, including those 33 pages that Google stated were indexed showed the identical thing. The leaf was certainly not indexed. Google had classified it as “crawled – currently not indexed.”

There wasn’t a issue alongside Google finding the new page. Rather, they had crawled it and chosen not to indicator it.

We ran a live test in GSC on multiple of these pages. In all case the study told us the leaf was accessible to be indexing, but only if certain conditions were met.

That nexus points to this page in which Google tells us the leaf power not get indexed if it is topic to a manual act or a copy of another page. Neither of these was the case. We wondered if the location immigration caused replication issues. But Google plainly recognized the canonical as this new site, and the old leaf was correctly redirecting to it.

However, Google lists a third imaginable logic for not indexing a valid page: The leaf norm must be elevated adequate to justify indexing.

What Were The Quality Issues?

In my assessment for this site, I noted that during the location was fine written and thorough, there was extremely small first value on any leaf compared to what already exists on another sites on the web.

They were all commodity content – satisfied that is basically the identical throughout another sites on the internet.

Google lately updated its records on creating helpful content to contain new data on the “main content” of your webpage. The chief satisfied is the part of the leaf that helps fulfil the searcher’s need. In it, they emphasized the importance of:

• Effort.
• Originality.
• Talent or skill.
• Accuracy.

That item on originality is what I think matters most here. Google describes it as “The degree to which the satisfied offers unique, first data or perspectives that aren’t already accessible on another websites.”

Why Wasn’t The Old Site Impacted Then?

This is the apparent question! Why was the norm satisfactory on the old domain and abruptly deemed low norm following the migration?

I think that if Google applied these norm standards throughout the commission to all location on the internet, the huge bulk of websites would endure catastrophic loss. Who knows, it is imaginable we volition see this alongside a forthcoming center update.

My theory is that whenever the location I reviewed migrated to a new domain, this triggered a additional strict norm assessment. Given that none of the pages offered data that really was first and offered additional than what is already accessible on another websites, Google’s systems decided not to indicator it.

What Should You Do?

If you cannot get indexed following a location migration, archetypal you should thoroughly assessment for specialized reasons. Ensure you have correctly redirected old pages to new. Make certain you document the alter of location in Google Search Console. Use the Live Test in GSC to verify that Google can see the satisfied on these pages. It is a fine idea to nexus alongside an SEO who can thoroughly examine specialized issues.

It’s additionally value knowing that site migrations can obtain period for Google to process. It is imaginable you fair need to delay longer. In the case I mentioned above, however, it has been four months now, and lone the homepage is indexed. There is certainly item wrong.

If it is certainly an matter alongside location quality, afterward I would propose producing a small fistful of really first and insightful articles. For many sites, this requires a entire new endeavor direction. It’s no longer fine adequate to compose concerning things the earth already knows. You need to discover things you can create that bring item new to the net that group volition discover of value.

What I don’t know, however, is whether Google volition regard the value of these idiosyncratic pages or whether your general location norm score, diminished since of unoriginal content, volition hinder indexing of these pages as well.

Another choice to regard is to start entirely complete on a new domain alongside brand new content. I acknowledge this is not the answer you are looking for. However, if my theory is right, afterward there is no specialized SEO fix for many of these sites that are struggling to get their new domain indexed.

I’d go through all of the earlier top-performing pages on your location and use this immediate in your LLM of choice:

"I would akin to create a new type of this leaf that contains data that is really first compared to what already exists on the internet. My goal is for it to provision helpful data or functionality that searchers cannot discover anyplace else. Brainstorm alongside me, assisting me discover ways to diagram from my cognition and cognition to create item that searchers are apt to discover additional helpful than what currently exists."

More Resources:

• Ask An SEO: Why Aren’t My Pages Getting Indexed?
• Ask An SEO: How Can We Recover A 30% Drop In Organic Traffic From A Site Migration?
• Google On Scaled Content: “It’s Going To Be An Issue”

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After additional than 15 years of driving between San Antonio and Austin as a longtime Texas local, I've established my favorite detour: Fredericksburg.

Part of the scenic Texas Hill Country, it's a walkable city alongside German roots, famous for its gathering of wineries, boutique hotels, and lively downtown.

Although I affection Austin and San Antonio, Fredericksburg provides a small-town awareness that the aforementioned cities — alongside populations near to a myriad all — could never fairly achieve.

In my opinion, Fredericksburg's small community of concerning 12,000 group lone lends to its charm. It's a awesome interrupt from bigger Texas cities, as it's small than a two-hour run from Austin or San Antonio.

Here are a few reasons I sojourn Fredericksburg twice a twelvemonth and extremely propose it as a journey destination.

In this area, vino is a huge draw

Fredericksburg is situated in the bosom of Texas vino country, so visiting without enjoying one of its many wineries is akin a infringement in Texas. (Another crime? Dry brisket.)

In Fredericksburg, you can either halt by a multitude of tasting rooms on Main Street or run out former a ranch or two to discover Tuscan-style wineries hidden in plain sight.

One of my favorite wineries is Augusta Vin Winery — and it's value the additional drive. I continually bask sipping reds in the roomy tasting room, alongside ample open windows ideal for taking in the Texas sunshine.

A few another wineries value visiting in Fredericksburg contain the Rhinory for the distinctive cognition of drinking at a rhino reserve, Slate Theory for a contact of modernity, and Grape Creek Vineyards or Barons Creek for traditional experiences alongside beautiful views.

There's no deficit of awesome places to catch a meal in Fredericksburg

Consider leaning into the city's German bequest at The Auslander, among the many locally owned restaurants on Main Street. Reminiscent of a traditional Bavarian ale hall, it has beer, a entire division of schnitzel entrées, sausage plates, and German sandwiches.

For a visitant additional partial to upscale fare, try The Restaurant at Albert Hotel. It's fairly new and a great location for date night.

Led by Michelin-starred chef Michael Fojtasek, The Restaurant pays homage to seasonal Texas Hill Country-inspired cuisine alongside caller local ingredients (like peaches) and spins on German dishes.

For good Texas barbecue, halt by Junebug's BBQ. Its list is filled alongside smoked meats — the pulled pork is particularly notable — and all the fixings.

Other notable local bites contain Vaudeville's celebrated gumbo that's lone accessible on Saturdays, Otto's decadent cinnamon rolls, and Alstadt Brewery's ice-cold ale and tasty Reuben sandwiches.

Main Street is additionally residence to multiple nice coffee shops — and the Old West-themed Java Ranch is my go-to for a ideal iced latte. I additionally propose checking out Kaffee Haus and Caliche Coffee and Roasters.

Lastly, if you desire to sojourn an Instagram-worthy place alongside many of bubbly, caput downward Main Street to the all-pink paradise that is Brooke's Bubble Bar. It's a extremely adorable location to break photos and bask a drink.

There's so much to do and try here, and I cognize I'll keep coming back

I frequently toggle up which vineyards, cafés, and eateries I visit, and Fredericksburg's assortment of accommodations makes it uncomplicated to alter up anywhere I stay, too.

I can sleep in one of multiple boutique hotels, go for a additional rustic remain at the Onera treehouse retreat near Main Street, or bask a cozy visitant division at Cross Mountain Vineyards.

Hotels and eateries aside, Main Street additionally has lots of art galleries, ancient shops, garments boutiques, jewelry stores, and more.

I value that I can expend a entire day exploring downtown without always moving my car. (Plus, I've continually been capable to discover roomy liberated parking on Main Street).

If you desire to bask a big Texas city, inspect out Austin or equal San Antonio. However, if you're looking for a quieter substitute alongside a small-town feel, Fredericksburg is a awesome choice.

After all visit, I cognize I'll be rear soon.

This narrative was initially published on September 30, 2025, and most lately updated on October 16, 2026.

At 62, my existence looks nearly nothing akin the one my 20-year-old oneself pictured. It's better.

Sure, I'm divided and don't have grandchildren, but I have grownup children I adore and friendships alongside decades of history. Plus, I'm doing item I never imagined: construction a occupation on social media.

Every day, I conversation to complete 200,000 followers on TikTok and 135,000 on Instagram concerning hope, finding your purpose, and remembering that existence doesn't have an expiration date.

At an age whenever many group are winding down, I appear to fair be getting started. And I wouldn't alter a thing.

I attire for myself, not my age

I've continually loved fashion, from jeans and flip-flops to high heels and decorator gowns. But these days, I have additional confidence in my choices and a lot small involvement in anyone else's opinion of them.

When I appearance at clothes, I don't see an age requirement. I see item I either affection or don't.

Whether it's a bold print, an unexpected silhouette, or a declaration piece, my decision on what to deteriorate comes downward to how it looks and feels on me, not how old I am. Fashion has continually been a form of self-expression for me, and getting older hasn't changed that.

I don't think women should have to commerce their awareness of manner for item additional "age-appropriate" all period they commemorate another birthday.

Plus, my goal isn't to appearance 30. It's to create 30-year-olds enthusiastic to rotate 60. After all, why would I desire to rotate rear the clock? I've spent six decades learning who I am. I wouldn't commerce that knowledge fair to have younger-looking skin.

My friendships don't necessitate me to be anyone but myself

One of the most beautiful parts of getting older is having friendships that have stood the test of time. There's item particular concerning sitting throughout from person who knows the chapters of your existence you'd fairly ignore and realizing you have entirely nothing to prove.

My allies and I have stood by one another through divorces, financial struggles, challenges alongside our children, and several of life's most difficult moments.

But we've additionally shared amazing joy, deepened our connections, and celebrated the love, wisdom, and experiences that create expanding older specified a gift.

In my 20s, I was motionless figuring out who I was. Now, there's no force to perform, impress, or continually delight the group closest to me.

We don't obtain everything personally, either. If person is occupied or existence gets complicated, we understand. We cognize that a companionship isn't measured by how frequently you see all other.

That benevolent of liberty doesn't happen overnight. It's built through years of showing up, forgiving, laughing, and sometimes merely giving all another grace.

I've stopped questioning whether I'm anywhere I'm expected to be

When I was younger, I spent so much period wondering whether I was on the correct path. I had a extremely particular image of what my existence should appearance like, and whenever things didn't go according to plan, I questioned myself.

At 62, I can appearance rear and see that equal the experiences I never would have chosen were my top gifts of all. Every way is the correct path.

Loss taught me gratitude. Starting complete taught me courage. Being told I wasn't adequate taught me to acknowledge my own worth. And through it all, I've developed a resilience that allows me to visage any existence brings alongside confidence and hope.

And perchance that's the biggest difference between 22 and 62: I cognize that my existence is happening for me, not to me.

I spent so much of my younger years thinking concerning what my existence would become. Now I'm really living it, and I motionless have so much I desire to do.

I cognize aging is inevitable. But spending decades dreading it isn't.

There’s a new retention upgrade choice for smartphones compatible alongside wireless chargers and another magnetic accessories, but it won’t assistance if you’ve run out of area for apps, pics, and videos. The MagSafe Flex Pouch looks akin a magnetic wallet for pairing a small stack of credit cards to your phone, but its retention capability goes fine beyond a few lean synthetic cards gratitude to an extremely stretchy silicone pouch.

The MagSafe Flex Pouch’s creators, a business called Ninja Labs, has a bunch of suggestions for how to use the $58 accessory on its website. You can use it as yet another MagSafe wallet but one that has adequate capability for all the credit, debit, membership, loyalty, and ID cards from your complete extended family. You can additionally compression your car’s fob in there, as fine as wireless earbuds, lip balms, gum, snacks, makeup, a fistful of free change, or an obnoxious rotate of cash.

The stretchy pocket conforms to whatever’s stuffed inner it and since silicone naturally has a grippy texture the Flex Pouch should do a fine job at ensuring nothing falls out if you don’t complete inhabit it. And if the appearance of the translucent silicone isn’t doing it for you, the pocket is additionally accessible in opaque colors including black, pink, blue, and lavender, affirmative an additional choice alongside a rainbow sparkly finish.

Delivery estimates for the iPhone Duo slipped into next twelvemonth in small than an hr following Apple opened preorders for it at 8AM ET on Friday.

At the period of penning we are seeing delayed January shipment dates for all configuration on Apple’s website. The foldable is slated to initiate in stores on October 23rd, and Apple typically reserves several units for in-store availability. So during online orders are delayed, you power be capable to get one sooner in-person at an Apple Store.

The lengthy postpone could be because of elevated petition for Apple’s archetypal foldable iPhone, low provision on Apple’s side, or a mix of both. Apple announced the iPhone Duo in September, featuring the shorter passport-style scheme Samsung introduced before this year. The Duo starts at $1,999 for the 256GB example and comes in “star white” and “night sky.” You can motionless preorder it on Apple’s website, but you power be in for a lengthy delay before you get to unfold it.

When the midrange Sony Xperia 10 VI was announced complete two years ago alongside a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset and Android 14, Sony promised three important OS updates which would have included this year’s Android 17 release. However, according to a notice posted to the company’s UK assistance site, the Xperia 10 VI won’t be getting Android 17 following all.

In the notice Sony explains that a “detailed specialized assessment” revealed that “limitations connected to the device’s retention configuration” average the Xperia 10 VI “does not assistance an Android 17 upgrade cognition that we regard adequate.” As a result, the business has “decided not to create this upgrade available” and apologized that the decision “falls abbreviated of our first announcement.”

Sony clarifies that during OS updates for the Xperia 10 VI are ending, the business volition continue to provision four years of safety updates which should broaden until June 2028. Sony additionally points out that this particular matter lone applies to the “Xperia 10 VI’s specialized specifications” and does not effect promised OS updates for another Xperia models. But since the specialized requirements of forthcoming versions of Android aren’t yet known, it’s difficult to obtain Sony at its term stated today’s announcement.

Since gun-rights activist and alt-right-friendly agitator Cody Wilson made the archetypal 3D-printed firearm 13 years ago, he’s helped guide in a disorderly era of untraceable shade guns. Now he’s claiming another first: “the archetypal AI-made gun.” It’s called the WASP.

Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and ordnance at the Royal Armories Museum in Leeds, England, was additional crucial whenever asked if the WASP seemed functional.

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• Mack DeGeurin

For the final thirty years, digital marketers have been focused on keeping bots out. The extremely term “bots” had a negative connotation, and the layers and layers of safety we’ve built are now a liability to brands’ web stacks.

This isn’t since safety stopped mattering… It hasn’t. But all of the CAPTCHAs, charge limits, login walls, fingerprinting and net fortresses we’ve tried to build must be re-examined in the contemporary environment of AI. Brands may be doing themselves a disservice alongside the default stance that automated traffic is antagonistic until proven otherwise.

My co-founder has been preaching concerning this for years, and I’ve nodded alongside for most of them. Only lately have I felt the upside-downness of it, and how much of what we built to defend brands now plant against us.

Understanding the measure of the problem

Bots are now 53% of web traffic — that’s the stat everyone repeats on LinkedIn. Although if you double-click, the environment is equal additional crucial since agents are doing way additional than they used to. Often, they don’t fair scan sites; they engage and execute workflows, which makes fine and bad traffic harder to inform apart.

That is anywhere the issue lies and what we need to resolve for — Your defenses can’t inform the difference between person abrasion your catalog nefariously and someone’s aide trying to buy from it. Same door, identical knock. It is difficult to differentiate between bots operating on behalf of a company, agents operating for a consumer, and bad actors (who are motionless bad actors).​

Brands are starting to clasp new strategies

As agents act additional and additional on behalf of consumers, websites commencement to clasp a extremely distinct place in the client journey. A client tells their assistant: “Find me trail runners, men’s size 10.5, waterproof, under $150, at my entrance by Saturday.” That delegate lands on your location and starts guessing. It says your leaf code, infers what your buttons do, and clicks.

Now think concerning what happens whenever it doesn’t activity or it can’t get appropriate access. The delegate doesn’t email assistance or try again tomorrow. It moves to a location that was easier to run and tells your client it established the shoes there. No cart, no session, no indication item happened.

That’s the change marketers should awareness in their chest. Site conflict used to disbursal you conversion rate. Now it expenses you the deliberation set, silently, before a figure lands in your analytics.

Instead of the delegate reverse-engineering your site, brands need to clasp new protocols and location structures that are helpful, not protective of bots.​ The hazard is that skipping this method agents may path about you to marketplaces and resellers anywhere the data is uncomplicated to get. Your merchandise becomes a row in person else’s difference table. No brand story, no bundle, no logic to choice you complete the row below apart from cost and a star.​​

Bots must be considered a first-class audience whenever optimizing your website and digital experience. Here are a few things that brands need to regard as they develop their web experiences for the two individual consumers & bots.

1. Find out what you’re blocking and create it easier for “good bots” to consume your site

Your bot guideline apt got set by a vendor default at several item and frequently nobody has opened it since. There’s a genuine chance you’re blocking several of your own petition and calling it protection. ​

Example: Plenty of brands motionless obstacle crucial buts akin ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity use to fetch pages whenever person asks a question. If those bots can’t attain your site, you can’t be cited whenever a shopper asks AI what to buy.

2. Make certain that your location construction is laid out fine for agents, and not fair fine styled

Structure strikes styling whenever it comes to agents. Structuring data specified as pricing, availability/inventory, FAQs, sizing, shipping windows, come back policy, etc. is incredibly important. 

​Example: Having Ratings & Reviews data live a fine designed carousel or an image, method they don’t be to agents.

3. Map your client journey and create certain the actions agents need to obtain are fine articulated

Start by identifying the key things a client would desire an delegate to do on your location and optimize specifically for those.

Example: A footwear brand would desire to create certain agents can effortlessly navigate to buy their products, peruse reviews, and difference to their chief competitors. Given these are all steps in journey an delegate is apt to obtain on behalf of a shopper, brands must re-engineer parts of their website to create these steps seamless not fair for individual shoppers but agents too.

4. Revamp your analytics stack

Often an delegate visits your location and reports rear to the person on a distinct exterior than your website. Ultimately, what matters is whether you showed up, got cited, and got picked inside the AI Search communication between AI and your customer. But it additionally method your web analytics are not a trustworthy origin of fact whenever agents are the ones visiting it, and afterward taking the data and cognition onto new surfaces not mapped by your web analytics.

​Example: Your integrated hunt traffic may have dropped 35% complete the former few quarters, but that does not necessarily average you have gotten 35% small integrated impressions. It’s apt that the impressions have fair moved from your website (between you and your shopper), and are now taking location throughout ample tongue models (between an delegate and your shopper). For many brands this method a new set of metrics and analytics are required to comprehend how bots and AI are changing integrated discovery. ​

Conclusion

None of this method the final thirty years were a mistake. The gates were accurate for the net we had. They’re fair pointed at the incorrect item now.

It’s additionally crucial to acknowledge that evolving for an agentic net isn’t fair an SEO tweak or checklist to activity through. It’s architectural, and promotion owns additional of it than promotion expects. Nobody from safety is going to stroll into your Monday standup and inform you the bot rules are costing you customers.