Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’
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Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’
theverge.comElizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library
itsnicethat.comNot all borrowing is the same. From public domain illustrations on book covers to AI’s data hoarding, who really owns culture – and who gets away with taking it?
ITX-Llama Mainboard
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…a retro-inspired true x86 motherboard designed for those passionate about late-DOS and early Windows 98 systems.
Microchip data for tens of thousands of Australian pets at risk as company goes dark
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iOS App Store apps with screenshot-reading malware found for the first time
theverge.comOpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
404media.coThe Offices Of The Central Social Institution Of Prague – 1937
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3D Printed Mechanical Display
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AI-Generated Book Grifters Threaten The Future of Lace-Making
404media.coIt’s already come for the crochet community, and researchers have tried to teach machines to knit. But lace-making—a craft that even Renaissance artists struggled to master, and in which there are a literal infinite number of patterns to be created—is now having its AI slop moment.
On Standby
loudnumbers.netOn Standby is a piece of sound art designed to be listened to while sleeping. It’s based on data collected by seven different people in Malmö, Sweden. Each of those people used a smart plug to collect data on the energy consumption of a device in their home over the course of a single night, the night of 25th August 2024.
AI used by Tasmanian government to validate Chambroad’s Kangaroo Bay hotel job claims
abc.net.auIn response, the Department of Premier and Cabinet’s State Planning Office said in the report that it had deemed the job numbers “reasonable” after using Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant.
Jesus fucking christ.
How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
theverge.com.io is the country code domain for the Chagos Islands — or the British Indian Ocean Territory — which the UK just agreed to relinquish control of.