That’s according to Rich Skrenta, the executive director of Common Crawl — a non-profit that has scraped billions of webpages and reportedly created a backdoor for AI models to secretly train on paywalled articles. Skrenta told The Atlantic that requests to remove such content from its database are “a pain in the ass,” and argues that bots should be allowed to “read the books” for free.
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The redesign, spotted on the updated Apple TV website by MacRumors, splits the typical Apple logo into six colorful slices, with each segment representing one of the subscription services included in the Apple One Premium bundle. It also somewhat resembles Apple’s 1977 rainbow logo, which is a pleasant throwback.
Patent and Trademark Office director John A. Squires has ordered the 12,403,397 patent — often oversimplified to “summoning characters and making them fight” — to be reexamined, citing two older Konami and Nintendo applications that raise “a substantial new question of patentability.” This isn’t one of the patents in Nintendo’s ongoing legal battle with Palworld-creator Pocketpair.
The Edge browser will now let users store passkeys via the Microsoft Password Manager, making it easier to ditch traditional passwords. Passkeys are backed up to your Microsoft account, and can sync across devices. Microsoft says this feature is currently limited to Windows users, but will be expanded to additional platforms in the future.
Enabling the browser’s “enhanced autofill” option will offer to save more information when you submit forms, according to Google’s support page, such as your driver’s license, passport, or vehicle details. This update is available globally today in all languages. Google says it plans to support more autofill data types “over the coming months.”
