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This free fan remake is the perfect way to celebrate Zelda’s 40th anniversary

This free fan remake is the perfect way to celebrate Zelda’s 40th anniversary

Today is Zelda’s 40th anniversary, marking four decades since the original game made its debut for Famicom in Japan in 1986 before launching on the NES in the US and Europe a year after. It seems the perfect occasion to revisit the first Zelda game – or at least a reimagining of the landmark release.

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Google AI Mode Link Update, Click Share Data & ChatGPT Fan-Outs – SEO Pulse

Google AI Mode Link Update, Click Share Data & ChatGPT Fan-Outs – SEO Pulse

Welcome to the week’s SEO Pulse: updates affect how links appear in AI search results, where organic clicks are going, and which languages ChatGPT uses to find sources. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Redesigns Links In AI Overviews And AI Mode Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced on

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The mental gymnastics of principal media

The mental gymnastics of principal media

There’s a very specific facial expression CMOs make when “principal media” enters the conversation — composure holding, skepticism setting in. They understand the mechanics: an agency buys inventory, resells it and keeps the margin. What’s changed is the expectation that they take a side. For some, the model nudges decisions toward the agency’s balance sheet, not

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Desert Coffee (USA) :: Behance

Desert Coffee (USA) :: Behance

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Google Ads Surfaces PMax Search Partner Domains In Placement Report

Google Ads Surfaces PMax Search Partner Domains In Placement Report

Some advertisers are now seeing Performance Max placement data populate in Google Ads reporting, including Search Partner domains and impression counts that had previously been absent from the report. PPC marketer Thomas Eccel flagged the change on LinkedIn, noting the report had been empty for his PMax campaigns until now. “I finally see where and

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Dept Powers Up Its Global Content Studio With Adobe AI

Dept Powers Up Its Global Content Studio With Adobe AI

The demand for marketing content is higher than ever as consumer attention fragments and brands are able to reach people in multiple languages and contexts across the globe. Dept wants to change how that work gets done. The digital agency has partnered with Adobe to rebuild how its 500-person global content studio operates. The overhaul

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Vlad Boyko on bringing back early 2000s clubbing visuals

Vlad Boyko on bringing back early 2000s clubbing visuals

The most successful work in this steady run of experimental flyers and prints always seemed to be the ones Vlad designed for friends or ‘small’ events: “the one flyer that I think, received the most attention last year was Doomscrolling Live for a small ambient listening night organized in Antwerp by my friends SYSTM. I

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‘Summarize With AI’ Buttons Used To Poison AI Recommendations

‘Summarize With AI’ Buttons Used To Poison AI Recommendations

Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team published research describing what it calls “AI Recommendation Poisoning.” The technique involves businesses hiding prompt-injection instructions within website buttons labeled “Summarize with AI.” When you click one of these buttons, it opens an AI assistant with a pre-filled prompt delivered through a URL query parameter. The visible part tells the

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Content marketing jobs are splitting in two

Content marketing jobs are splitting in two

If you think content marketing is still about writing blog posts and filling an editorial calendar, the job market says otherwise. A Semrush analysis of 8,000 U.S. content marketing job listings shows a profession in the middle of a structural shift. Companies are no longer hiring content marketers just to produce assets. They want them

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These detailed earphones just got discounted – they were only released two months ago!

These detailed earphones just got discounted – they were only released two months ago!

I just finished writing my review on the Binary Acoustics EP321 MEMS in-ear monitor, when I noticed that there’s already $15 off the asking price, over at Amazon. The EP321 only got released in December 2025, and it was great value for its asking price, so this is definitely a deal worth highlighting. There are

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Vectorization And Transformers (Not The Film)

Vectorization And Transformers (Not The Film)

Information retrieval systems are designed to satisfy a user. To make a user happy with the quality of their recall. It’s important we understand that. Every system and its inputs and outputs are designed to provide the best user experience. From the training data to similarity scoring and the machine’s ability to “understand” our tired, sad

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Pet care firm Jollyes on its ‘unapologetic’ marketing mission

Pet care firm Jollyes on its ‘unapologetic’ marketing mission

Jollyes Pets is on a mission to use marketing to set itself apart as a challenger in the competitive pet retail sector. Over the past three years, the business has almost doubled its number of stores, with February seeing launches in Hartlepool, Ponders End and Whitehaven. This follows a strong Christmas trading period, with total

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Impossible Objects :: Behance

Impossible Objects :: Behance

Impossible Objects A creative consultancy and showroom connecting brands across physical and digital platforms. The identity reduces the full name to the abstraction “I O,” where the space between the letters acts as a stage for the brands it represents. A modular grid system structures every application, creating a consistent, yet adaptable framework that can

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Great SEO Is Good GEO — But Not Everyone’s Been Doing Great SEO

Great SEO Is Good GEO — But Not Everyone’s Been Doing Great SEO

As SEOs, we are used to being adaptable to changing algorithms, so LLM optimization should be a simple extension of that process. To discuss the industry debates surrounding the differences between SEO and GEO and clarify whether they are the same or different, I spoke with SEO veteran Grant Simmons. Grant has over 30 years

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Amazon surpasses Walmart in annual revenue for the first time

Amazon surpasses Walmart in annual revenue for the first time

Amazon has eclipsed Walmart in annual revenue for the first time ever. Amazon said earlier this month that it brought in $716.9 billion in revenue for 2025. That beat Walmart’s sales last year, which came in at $713.2 billion, the company reported on Thursday. Walmart has topped the Fortune 500 list, which ranks the biggest U.S. companies

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The third book from The Gourmand makes room for the mushroom

The third book from The Gourmand makes room for the mushroom

Mushrooms come in all shapes and sizes. There’s those we cook with – the bulbous chestnut, long stemmed enoki and otherworldly globes of lion’s mane – and the brightly coloured and spotted growths often found in wooded areas, those you best avoid at all costs unless you’re a seasoned forager with extensive knowledge of their

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Google Offers AI Certificate Free For Eligible U.S. Small Businesses

Google Offers AI Certificate Free For Eligible U.S. Small Businesses

Google has launched the Google AI Professional Certificate, a self-paced program covering data analysis, content creation, research, and vibe coding. Every participant receives three months of free access to Google AI Pro. Eligible U.S. small businesses can access the entire program at no cost through a separate application (more on eligibility below). The certificate is

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Dentsu and WPP Quietly Exited The Trade Desk’s OpenPath Over Hidden Fees and Transparency

Dentsu and WPP Quietly Exited The Trade Desk’s OpenPath Over Hidden Fees and Transparency

The world’s largest holding companies are pulling back from one of The Trade Desk’s most closely-watched, and arguably important, initiative: OpenPath. OpenPath is meant to make ads perform better and help ad buyers directly purchase publishers’ inventory. If successful, it could offer a viable alternative to Google, and CEO Jeff Green bullishly anticipated 2025 as the

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Pinterest x World of Warcraft is the strangest social media collab yet

Pinterest x World of Warcraft is the strangest social media collab yet

Could your home’s interior design use an injection of ‘goblin glamour’ or ‘orcish minimalism’? While these weren’t up there with Wilderkind on Pinterest’s 2026 trend predictions, they’re now taking off on the platform thanks to a collaboration that wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card for 2026. As one of the best social media platforms for artists

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RIP to Content that Died Because of Misaligned Strategy

Content without alignment is just expensive noise. Melissa Wickes breaks down how amplification and shared goals drive real ROI. The post RIP to Content that Died Because of Misaligned Strategy first appeared on Spin Sucks.

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