(This episode was recorded late due to illness)

- Google's May 2026 Core Update continues to roll out. 

- Google has changed it's home page to promote AI features from Google I/O. 

- Google Business Profiles is now offering detailed rejection notices. Previously GBP owners were left in the dark to figure out the issues on their own. 

- The links report in Google Search Console is broken. It always underreported but now it's not updating. 

- The Trump Administration has created at Trumptastic app which it is ordering all employees to install on government phones. 

- Amnesty International has declared AIs "Unlawful by Design" taking issue with unlawful web scraping and the ease of identifying and doxing activists. 

- Google CEO Sundar Pichai outlined his vision for the unification of Google Search, AI agents, and AI tools in an interview with The Verge, downplaying Zero-click web concerns. 

- DuckDuckGo is taking off, tripling its traffic in a week

- Stanford research shows AI hiring algorithms reject Black and Asian job seekers at far higher rates.

- WordPress is slowly losing market share seeing declines six months in a row

- All this and much more in the least lawfully designed yet unified edition.

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