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Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Claburn 2025-11-24 16:26:14

Bots harvesting content for AI companies have proliferated to the point that they're threatening digital collections of arts and culture. Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) say they're being overwhelmed by AI bots – web crawling scripts that visit websites and download data to be used for training AI models – according to a report issued on Tuesday by the GLAM-E Lab, which studies issues affecting GLAMs. GLAM-E Lab is a joint initiative between the Centre for Science, Culture

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Fossil fuels are an insurance disaster

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-11-24 21:49:15

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Heatwaves, mold, and plastic pollution pose new risks to businesses and insurance companies, a new report by reinsurer Swiss Re warns. What do these things have in common? Fossil fuels make matters worse. They release the greenhouse gases warming our planet and are the primar

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California is trying to regulate its AI giants — again

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-25 16:07:48

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Last September, all eyes were on Senate Bill 1047 as it made its way to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk — and died there as he vetoed the buzzy piece of legislation. SB 1047 would have required makers of all large AI models, particularly those that cost $100 million or more to train, to test them for specific dangers. A

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Instagram is working on a repost button for the main feed

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-25 21:43:41

Instagram might be about to cross off one of the most requested features from users’ wish lists: The company has confirmed it’s testing a native repost button for the main Feed. Here’s how it might work. Not the first time, but maybe the last? If you’ve got a good memory, you might recall that Instagram first started experimenting with reposts back in 2022. Now, some users are once again spotting the feature live in their accounts. According to early reports and screenshots (which Meta has co

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Social media is now the top news source in the U.S.

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-26 22:49:48

For the first time ever, social media has overtaken TV as the number one way Americans get their news. Whether that’s a good thing… depends on who you ask. This is one of the standout findings from the Reuters Institute’s 2025 Digital News Report (via NiemanLab), released yesterday. According to the report, 54% of U.S. adults now say their news come from social media and video platforms, compared to 50% who rely on TV and 48% who use traditional news websites or apps. It’s the first time socia

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The cracks in the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-26 18:40:51

In Brief OpenAI and Microsoft may be reaching an inflection point in their relationship, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report, citing anonymous sources, says OpenAI executives have considered publicly accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior throughout their partnership. OpenAI executives also mulled whether to seek a federal regulatory review of their contract with Microsoft. OpenAI is trying to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its intellectual property and computin

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Instagram is running another test of a repost feature

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 11:03:09

Instagram is testing a new repost feature. TechCrunch reported that social media network is currently running a test that gives users the opportunity to repost content. The current feature test is focused on resharing a post, the content that appears in a user's feed, as a new post. The platform does already offer the ability to share a post to someone's Story, but this post-to-post repost would be a new addition to the available interactions. Instagram did a very similar test of a very similar

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Instagram tests a reposts feature

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-27 21:04:33

Instagram is testing the ability for users to repost posts, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The move doesn’t come as a surprise, as the social network was spotted developing the feature as far back as 2022. Some users have reported seeing the feature on their accounts, with one noting that users will be able to repost their own content in addition to other users’ posts. Of course, not everyone will be on board if Instagram decides to roll out the change officially, especially si

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People Over Papers: The Creator of ‘Waze for Ice Immigration Raids’ Speaks Out

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-30 11:15:55

Born in the U.S. to immigrant parents from Mexico, Celeste, 30, is the creator of People Over Papers, a decentralized and anonymous collective that tracks and maps real-time ICE sightings submitted by the public. (For her safety, Gizmodo is using a synonym for Celeste’s real name.) The project functions like a kind of “Waze for immigration raids,” built not to direct traffic, but to save lives, offer warnings, and raise awareness about immigration enforcement operations across the U.S. Celeste,

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Tech unemployment in the US climbs for fifth consecutive month to 5.5%, AI blamed for job losses

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-04 16:28:00

In brief: After we had some good news about the UK tech jobs market last week, a new report on the US equivalent doesn't paint such as a rosy picture. The unemployment rate among IT professionals rose to 5.5% in May, marking the fifth month in a row that it has exceeded the national US average. The report, from IT management consulting company Janco, states that the unemployment rate for IT pros in the United States jumped 0.9% from 4.6% in April to 5.5% in May. As highlighted in another repor

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Americans pay trillions in rent, but few get credit score boost for it

cnbc.com Afshan Musani 2025-12-04 21:13:48

Esusu has deals with Goldman Sachs, Mercy Housing, and Cushman & Wakefield, and partnerships with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to increase the number of units nationally that report rent as part of credit. Esusu is a credit score reporting service which has partnered with 75% of the largest rental companies and more recently created a direct line for renters to report their rent payments. "We have democratized access because you have a long tail of people who don't live in commercially managed h

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The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots safer

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-04 12:10:00

Amsterdam thought it was on the right track. City officials in the welfare department believed they could build technology that would prevent fraud while protecting citizens’ rights. They followed these emerging best practices and invested a vast amount of time and money in a project that eventually processed live welfare applications. But in their pilot, they found that the system they’d developed was still not fair and effective. Why? Lighthouse Reports, MIT Technology Review, and the Dutch n

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The most critical job skill you need to thrive in the AI revolution

zdnet.com Lester Mapp 2025-08-14 06:48:00

rob dobi/Getty Images A few weeks ago, The World Economic Forum dropped its predictions for the future of jobs and the seismic shift in the workforce over the next five years (2030). Here's a link: The Future of Jobs Report 2025 Let me tell you, this thing is really well put together. As a connoisseur of well-formatted PDFs, this one goes hard. Also: Searching for your dream job? Google's new career AI tool can help - and it's free It has tons of relatable info and is super easy to follow,

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HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-14 06:45:17

In an odd approach to trying to improve customer tech support, HP allegedly implemented mandatory, 15-minute wait times for people calling the vendor for help with their computers and printers in certain geographies. Callers from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy were met with the forced holding periods, The Register reported on Thursday. The publication cited internal communications it saw from February 18 that reportedly said the wait times aimed to "influence customers

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Report: AI coding assistants aren’t a panacea

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-08-14 07:11:09

In Brief As they gain in popularity, AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot may appear to be boosting productivity. But in reality, they could be causing overall code quality to decline. That’s the top-line finding from a new report released by software engineering platform GitClear, which analyzed 211 million code lines from 2020 to 2024. According to GitClear’s analysis, there was a remarkable decline in code reuse last year — a potential cause for concern, given that code reuse is a co

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Reddit reportedly experienced some outages

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-14 06:04:09

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit experienced “international outages,” NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, said in a post Thursday evening, though it appears the outages have resolved. In that post, the organization said that the incident was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.” There was also a big spike of outage reports on Downdetector, with a peak of around 56,000 rep

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Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-14 05:20:21

Apple and Lenovo had the lowest laptop repairability scores in an analysis of recently released devices from consumer advocacy group US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. While Apple's low marks are partially due the difficulty involved in disassembling MacBooks, Lenovo appears to be withholding information from shoppers deemed critical to right-to-repair legislation and accessibility. The report, US PIRG's fourth annual “Failing the Fix” [PDF], calculated repairability score

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Latest Tech News

Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data

Fossil fuels are an insurance disaster

California is trying to regulate its AI giants — again

Instagram is working on a repost button for the main feed

Social media is now the top news source in the U.S.

The cracks in the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening

Instagram is running another test of a repost feature

Instagram tests a reposts feature

People Over Papers: The Creator of ‘Waze for Ice Immigration Raids’ Speaks Out

Tech unemployment in the US climbs for fifth consecutive month to 5.5%, AI blamed for job losses

Americans pay trillions in rent, but few get credit score boost for it

The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots safer

The most critical job skill you need to thrive in the AI revolution

HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support

Report: AI coding assistants aren’t a panacea

Reddit reportedly experienced some outages

Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

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