Sean Hollister

I missed half my little girl’s first roller coaster ride because the recording cut off at the minute mark, so I love this for them.

Fast Company asked him why his AI search engine is ripping content from paywalled news outlets like Wired, and... hoo boy. He attempted to shift blame to “third-party web crawlers,” refused to identify which ones, said it was too “complicated” to just stop doing that, and suggested it’s not technically illegal to ignore robots.txt. Sure.

Wired, June 19th: “Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine.”

We are officially in the “if you can dream it, someone can build it” stage of foam warfare. This is the Final Condition, a true break-action shotty worthy of Destiny or Doom. Its designer plans to release files in the near future — despite a recent setback.

The awesome bag company only told us about our data getting breached after Cybernews went public. Why? Peak initially assumed it was a vulnerability, not a breach, and never followed up with Cybernews after plugging the hole. Cybernews never sent Peak the ransom note, both entities confirm to The Verge.

It was the #1 most-played game yesterday evening, and it’s #1 again right now, as player counts for both it and Counter-Strike dip from their daily peaks of over 800,000 concurrents. As Polygon explains, not everyone’s clicking the banana continuously — you only need to click once every few hours. Guess I wasted 1335 clicks!