It helps journalists verify hypotheses, reveal hidden insights, follow the money, scale investigations, and add credibility ...

The Oregon Republican Party drew national attention this week after it announced the potential deployment of California National Guard troops to Portland in social media posts that featured stock ...

Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions on behalf of ...

Microsoft says Outlook for Web and the new Outlook for Windows will no longer display risky inline SVG images that are being used in attacks. This change began rolling out worldwide in early September ...

Though artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in synthetic child abuse images, it’s also being tested as a way to stop harm to real victims. Generative AI has enabled the production of child ...

The case is Mendones v. Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., decided Sept. 9 by Judge Victoria Kolakowski (Cal. Super. Ct. Alameda County). Here's a short excerpt; the whole opinion (including copied images and ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Thinking about learning Python? It’s a pretty popular language these days, and for good reason. It’s not super complicated, which is nice if you’re just starting out. We’ve put together a guide that ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...