
Meta adds website-crawling rights to business terms, raising AI-training concerns
The October 30 update offers no opt-out for businesses that keep using Meta services. Meta says website owners can still block crawling through robots.txt.
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The October 30 update offers no opt-out for businesses that keep using Meta services. Meta says website owners can still block crawling through robots.txt.
I still have the rejection email open in a browser tab from last March. Forty-one vectors, a full weekend of work, submitted to Adobe Stock in one batch. Rejected in under an hour, and not for the art. The CSV header was wrong. I had guessed the column order from a forum post from 2019.
Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.
Millions kept changing hands long after the election outcomes were effectively settled.
I live in Texas, and love the small city of Fredericksburg. There's a lot to do there, from visiting wineries to eating at good restaurants downtown.
The decision model attracted users faster than any previous gateway launch. Its small spending share shows why reach alone cannot measure a model’s commercial impact.
The drumbeat over how safe artificial intelligence is — or more to the point, isn’t — just keeps louder. In the wake of weeks of incidents involving rogue agents, with likely more to come, more government officials are calling for regulation, even if President Trump says it’s not needed.
Expanded restrictions highlight Beijing’s determination to prevent transfer of most advanced technology overseas
Google hands out extended free trials to its AI Pro subscription frequently with new smartphone purchases and more, but trial users end up getting less access compared to paid subscribers in what is a bit of a misleading situation. more…
TL;DR: ArgMap is a tool I created to make arguments explorable and computable, with every step directly linkable. Its first map is of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: I mapped the logical structure of the book's argument with LLM help.
Insider Brief Waymo plans to bring its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to Toronto in 2028, marking the company’s first expansion into Canada as it begins mapping and testing on city streets.
This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.8 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.Europe has spent years talking abo...
The Problem PhotoCraft: An open-source, photo editor written by scratch What is photocraft? photocraft is a new open-source project with 64553 stars. Why This Matters 1. Open Source Free to use — no API costs Self-hosted — run on your own infrastructure Privacy-focused — your data stays local 2.
Move may be part of a bigger plan but it spells even more capital expenditure at a company already spending beyond its means
A research team led by professor Seong Kyun Kim of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has developed a "passive cooling film material" that uses moisture in the air to cool electronic devices—no water or electricity is required.
This caused delays at airports across the country, including Rome’s Fiumicino airport and airports serving Milan and Bergamo
Many companies are keen to let employees build their own applications using AI, even those with little or no programming The post Employees are vibe-coding their own apps. Cloudflare open-sources Void to give IT a handle on them appeared first on The New Stack.
If you want to make a car spin in the air, compressed gas is a good way to do it.
Cloudflare AI — Minor · Resolved · started Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:46:51 GMT
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