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Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…
OpenAI's ChatGPT is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users, 'up from 500 million in March, marking a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth,' reports CNBC. From the report: The figure spans all ChatGPT artificial intelligence products -- free, Plus Pro,...
One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. 'You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast,' he says. The 31-year-old...
Remember when Philz Coffee was a converted liquor store in the Mission, serving up mint mojito coffee to hipsters who thought they were supporting a plucky local business? Well, the company that built its brand on 'Better Days' just served its loyal employees a Grande cup of ...
We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to...
Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid' Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…
Plastics are a 'grave, growing and under-recognised danger' to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. From a report: The world is in a 'plastics crisis,' it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Indian IT sector has operated for decades under the dominance of major firms TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCLT. The historical growth of these companies was tightly coupled with the U.S. economy through a strong 'multiplier effect,' where ...
PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on...
Convicted felon and real estate fraud Donald Trump's screaming response that everything Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says is a lie only confirms her validity. Trump took to screaming as Senator Warren explained exactly why his firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics...
TDS' Jordan Klepper takes a look back at years of MAGA interviews regarding Epstein and Trump's relationship. 'Biden sniffs kids.' These people are not sane, but they vote. Over time, I think I've gone from finding MAGAs funny to frustrating to fear-inducing. — Read the...
Google released a 30-second Pixel 10 ad today that mocks Apple's year-long delay in delivering promised AI improvements to Siri on iPhone 16 devices. The ad suggests users could 'just change your phone' if they purchased a device for a feature that's been 'coming soon for a...
The latest version of Amazon's Kindle firmware, 5.18.4, includes two new features, but will block you from jailbreaking the device. Amazon has just updated its 11th and 12th generation Kindle e-readers with firmware version 5.18.4. The change logs simply state that this...
Major cloud storage providers maintain unclear policies about deleting user data after subscription cancellations, Wired reports, with deletion timelines ranging from six months to indefinite preservation. Apple reserves the right to delete iCloud backups after 180 days of...
Animal shelters across Southern California are being overcrowded. In Santa Monica, fees are being waived for folks able to adopt. The Santa Monica Animal Shelter has exceeded its capacity amid a wave of animal surrenders and stray intakes, prompting city officials to waive ...
Nine out of ten people who believe they're allergic to penicillin actually aren't, and this widespread misunderstanding has serious healthcare implications. Research shows that while 10-20% of Americans report a penicillin allergy, fewer than 1% truly have one, according to...
If Tesla is sure this mere $29ish billion plan will incentivize Musk into staying, what was the other $20 billion for? After being told his $50 billion-plus pay package was 'unfair to shareholders,' Elon is back at it with a $29 billion-plus plan sure to incentivize...
Sydney Sweeney's gene/jeans commercial blowup has become a masterclass in Steve Bannon's political strategy of 'flooding the zone with shit' — overwhelming public attention with manufactured controversies to distract from substantive issues. The playbook, as analyzed in...
A New Zealand bus driver noticed a bag moving curiously, and got quite a surprise when he opened it. Police officers in Kaiwaka, a small town in New Zealand, arrested a 27-year-old woman who was transporting a 2-year-old in her suitcase stored in a bus's luggage compartment. ...
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