Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’

Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’

Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects “inappropriate bot behavior,” the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path…

SwitchBot adds robot vacuums, smart shades, and its new Hub 3 to Home Assistant

SwitchBot adds robot vacuums, smart shades, and its new Hub 3 to Home Assistant

SwitchBot will integrate more than 45 of its products with Home Assistant during the first half of this year, the company said in an email to The Verge. That expansion includes The SwitchBot Hub 3 that was first revealed in a filing with the Connectivity Standards Alliance last week. Many of these integrations are coming…

How ‘Careless People’ is becoming a bigger problem for Meta

How ‘Careless People’ is becoming a bigger problem for Meta

Meta has aggressively pushed to discredit and silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, her memoir about working at the company as a policy director. Now, she’s fighting back.  Attorneys for Wynn-Williams this week filed an emergency motion seeking to dismiss the gag order that Meta won via an arbitrator. A copy of her…

ICE is going after more international students

ICE is going after more international students

After immigration agents detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil over his involvement in pro-Palestine protests on campus, President Donald Trump promised it was just the beginning. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has since arrested at least two more students who are in the country on visas — one of whom had recently sued…