https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/ Marketing tech, SEO and AI search, and developer tools news from Toolbench. en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2026 02:04:39 +0000 https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/google-ai-plus-loses-pro-models/ https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/google-ai-plus-loses-pro-models/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Starting November 13, 2026, Google AI Plus subscribers can only pick Flash and Flash-Lite models in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Google Search. Pro model selection moves to the Google AI Pro plan and above. SEO and AI searchGoogle https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/hubspot-q3-2026-results/ https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/hubspot-q3-2026-results/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000 HubSpot's third quarter 2026 revenue was $947.6 million, up 17% year over year, and it ended September with 311,704 customers, according to its results release filed with the SEC. Marketing techHubSpot https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/hubspot-sunsets-design-manager-serverless-node20/ https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/hubspot-sunsets-design-manager-serverless-node20/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000 HubSpot is retiring serverless functions built in the design manager and Node.js 20 and earlier for workflow custom code actions. Existing design manager functions stop running on February 1, 2027. Dev toolsHubSpot https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/chrome-devtools-november-2026/ https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/chrome-devtools-november-2026/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Chrome's November 2026 DevTools update, covering Chrome 155 and 156, expands DevTools for agents with CSS style inspection, configuration file support and chunked trace parsing, and adds a visual position-area editor for CSS anchors. Dev toolsChrome https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/google-september-2026-spam-update-complete/ https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/google-september-2026-spam-update-complete/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Google's September 2026 spam update, its fourth spam update of the year, started September 24 and finished on October 8, 2026, a rollout of almost two weeks. SEO and AI searchGoogle https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/hubspot-domains-tls-1-2/ https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/hubspot-domains-tls-1-2/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 HubSpot automatically raised the minimum TLS version for domains it hosts to TLS 1.2 on October 14, 2026, for accounts that had allowed TLS 1.0 or 1.1. No action was required. Marketing techHubSpotSecurity https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/hubspot-pipelines-api-v1-sunset/ https://tools.samcbarth.com/news/hubspot-pipelines-api-v1-sunset/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 HubSpot will sunset its Pipelines API v1 on December 4, 2026. Integrations still calling it need to move to a 2026-03 or newer version of the Pipelines API. Dev toolsHubSpot