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Reddit announced it will soon restrict the classic desktop site to logged-in accounts that have used Old Reddit within the past six months, blocking new accounts and long-dormant users from the interface. Moderators are exempt from this recent-usage rule. Separately, Reddit said it will end support for RSS feeds starting November 13, citing their use for large-scale scraping.
Newly unredacted court documents in The New York Times' copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that a senior Microsoft executive privately labeled the companies' AI training practices as theft, while OpenAI leaders reportedly acknowledged their models posed an existential threat to publishers. The filings also allege the companies bypassed paywalls, scraped content en masse, and removed copyright notices to build training datasets.
The article's page itself was blocked by Anubis, a proof-of-work tool websites deploy to deter aggressive AI scraping bots, illustrating the very problem the piece discusses. Anubis forces browsers to solve a computational puzzle before loading content, adding negligible friction for humans but real cost for mass scrapers.