“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
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Jonathan Carter: DebConf26 – Santa Fe, Argentina
TL;DR: What a great DebConf! I managed to recharge my Debian batteries, and my talks / BoF sessions all went fine. Already looking forward to DebConf...
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Upper C-band auction offers another lift for GEO industry
Satellite operators have welcomed the prospect of reaping more than $6 billion for quickly clearing upper C-band spectrum the FCC aims to auction next year, with...
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Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.
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Little Red Dots Could Be Ancient Globular Clusters, Each Dominated by a Super-Massive Star
Little Red Dots are one of the mysteries uncovered by the JWST. Astronomers have been trying to figure out what they are, and have come up...
Read moreAdministration Admits It’s Canceling Federal Grants For Purely Political Reasons
We all know this administration is more than willing to reward “red” states and punish “blue” states. There will always be an administration official on hand...
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Reviving a Retro Mouse with BlueTooth low Energy support
One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee77] changes that by retrofitting a Genius GM-6000 mouse...
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Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening didn't just cause issues for people trying to play digital games - it blocked people from playing their...
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MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way
GPU prices seem to be on the rise once again with official distributor announcements in China hiking up the entire Blackwell lineup overnight. Compared to MSRP,...
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Cyan releases teaser for the first new Myst game in 20 years, then breaks the news that it's not actually being made
Project Anglerfish looks great, but publishers apparently aren't interested.
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Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off
Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful...
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5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech
Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.
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