The 126th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force — the volunteer-driven body whose output shapes every protocol the modern internet runs on — opened Saturday in Vienna and runs through July 24. The Hackathon and Code Sprint are underway this weekend. Full working group sessions begin Monday and continue through Friday afternoon. For engineers…
Is it possible to get an accurate view of the current state of SEO? There have been multiple attempts to reach consensus on what works, predict what might be coming, and identify the factors that may play a role in “good” (or “bad”) SEO. As useful and productive as some of this may be, none…
This is Part 3 in a five-part series on optimizing websites for the agentic web. Part 1 covered the evolution from SEO to AAIO. Part 2 explored how to get your content cited in AI responses. This article goes deeper: the protocols forming the infrastructure layer that make everything else possible. The early web needed…
We are in the “dial-up internet” phase of the agentic era. The architecture is emerging faster than the standards needed to make it work cleanly at enterprise scale. In December 2025, I introduced Forrester’s view of the agent control plane as the third functional plane in an enterprise agentic architecture, alongside the build plane and…
AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kitemarks, according to a report that warns they are not always developed with children’s psychological safety in mind. The recommendation appears in the initial report from AI in the Early Years: a University of Cambridge project and the first…
Emirati education experts at the UAE National Experts Programme (NEP) said today that the real transformation in the education sector will depend not on technology itself, but on how it is guided, …
If more than half the web runs on a content management system, then the majority of technical SEO standards are being positively shaped before an SEO even starts work on it. That’s the lens I took into the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter (for clarity, I co-authored the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter referenced in…
Over the past few years, one thing has become clear: people expect websites to load instantly. Not in a few seconds, but instantly. Many visitors judge a website within the first second, regardless of the device or connection they are using. If a page feels slow or unresponsive, users usually leave and rarely return. Speed…
