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    GoDaddy-hosted sites can now manage access to AI crawlers.

    The web hosting platform is working with Cloudflare to integrate the company’s AI Crawl Control tool, which lets publishers choose how web crawlers can access their site. Publishers can use the tool to permit or block bots, or ask them to pay.

    Cloudflare began blocking AI crawlers by default last year.

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    Emma Roth
    Apple isn’t giving up on its App Store fight with Epic just yet.

    The iPhone maker plans to ask the Supreme Court to review a December 2025 ruling that found Apple in contempt by imposing a 27 percent fee on external in-app payments, according to a new legal filing. Apple also is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause that ruling.

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    Emma Roth
    Delve and Y Combinator have “parted ways” amid fraud accusations.

    The AI-powered compliance startup is no longer listed on YC’s directory after an anonymous report alleged Delve “fakes compliance” and leaked audit reports, as reported by TechCrunch. Delve responded by claiming a bad actor “maliciously exfiltrated data” as part of a “coordinated, targeted cyberattack.”

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    YouTube removes Nvidia’s own DLSS 5 trailer after a takedown request from an Italian TV channel.

    The channel, La7, reportedly used the DLSS 5 footage in a segment about the upscaling tech. It seemingly issued takedown requests for videos using the same clips, including the original trailer from Nvidia and videos from creators covering DLSS 5’s launch.

    Screenshot: The Verge
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    Emma Roth
    Samsung Messages is shutting down.

    The app will no longer be available on devices with Android 12 or newer in July 2026, according to an update on Samsung’s website. Samsung is encouraging users to switch to Google Messages, which it began shipping as the default messaging app on flagship Galaxy devices in 2024.

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    Lawsuit accuses Perplexity of sharing conversations with Meta and Google.

    A proposed class action lawsuit claims Perplexity “effectively planted a bug” on users’ computers by embedding trackers from Meta and Google inside its AI search engine, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. It also alleges that Perplexity’s incognito mode “does nothing” to protect user privacy:

    Even paid users who turned on the “Incognito” feature still had their conversations shared with Meta and Google, along with their email addresses and other identifiers that allowed Meta and Google to personally identify them.