Cloudflare flexes its monopolistic muscle – delists Perplexity as a verified bot, accusing them of not playing nice in the sandbox.

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Cloudflare has publicly accused Perplexity of using deceptive and aggressive tactics to bypass restrictions intended to block its AI bots from crawling and scraping websites. According to Cloudflare, after multiple customer complaints and internal investigations, they found Perplexity circumvented standard anti-bot protections, including ignoring robots.txt directives and rotating IP addresses to avoid being blocked.

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Intel is finally feeling the pain of nVidia and Apple silicon’s impact on the market. Announce the layoff of more than 24,000 people.

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Intel is undergoing sweeping structural changes as the technology giant faces mounting pressure in the competitive semiconductor market. Under new leadership, the company plans to lay off a substantial portion of its workforce and scale back major capital expenditures, signaling a profound shift in strategy as it seeks to regain relevance in the AI-driven chip…

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Here’s what it’s like to have your website BANNED in Russia.

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Longtime readers know we sometimes give Russia a hard time. We love the citizens, but not so much how we feel the country treats them. And sometimes, Russia gives us a hard time. For instance, we just found out that we have been banned in Russia, not because of the articles on how to hack…

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New UK study shows 8% of children aged 8-14 have viewed online pornography.

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Recent UK research conducted by Ofcom—the communications regulator—reveals that 8% of children aged eight to 14 visited an online pornography site or app within a 28-day period. Within this group, about 3% of the youngest children (those aged 8–9) had accessed such material. The study tracked the use of websites and apps by children across…

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California man arrested for violent 764 network activity.

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A California man was arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging that he targeted children for sexual exploitation online as part of his role in an online violent network that seeks to accelerate social unrest and the downfall of the current world order.

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