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NYT, CNN, and some other news outlets block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content; some have also blocked Common Crawl Foundation’s CCBot (Ariel Bogle/The Guardian)

Ariel Bogle / The Guardian: NYT, CNN, and some other news outlets block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content; some have also blocked Common Crawl Foundation’s CCBot  —  Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT

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Citizen suspends sales of its $350 CZ Smart smartwatch, launched on May 1; review units had extensive issues, including freezing and inaccurate tracking data (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Citizen suspends sales of its $350 CZ Smart smartwatch, launched on May 1; review units had extensive issues, including freezing and inaccurate tracking data  —  The second-generation CZ Smart launched a few months ago.  Both the company and reviewers have found serious technical issues.

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Source: Tencent Music, Cloud Music, and more scrap their virtual lucky draws and other features at a hefty cost, as China cracks down on online gambling (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Josh Ye / Reuters: Source: Tencent Music, Cloud Music, and more scrap their virtual lucky draws and other features at a hefty cost, as China cracks down on online gambling  —  Chinese online content platforms including Tencent Music (1698.HK) and NetEase’s Cloud Music (9899.HK) have removed live streaming features …

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CoinGecko: Worldcoin’s WLD fell 9.1% in the past 24 hours to ~$1.33, down 43.6% since its launch a month ago, after scrutiny over data collection and privacy (Timmy Shen/The Block)

Timmy Shen / The Block: CoinGecko: Worldcoin’s WLD fell 9.1% in the past 24 hours to ~$1.33, down 43.6% since its launch a month ago, after scrutiny over data collection and privacy  —  – The controversial crypto project co-created by Sam Altman saw its WLD token drop 9.1% over the past 24 hours and 43.6%

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3 meta career paths for cloud computing

I do a lot of informal mentoring with people looking to get into cloud computing or who are already in and are looking to improve their income, education, or professional satisfaction—all good objectives.  There are three “meta career paths” that most cloud pros are on, and of course, each has good and bad points. Much

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Indian instant grocery delivery startup Zepto raised a $200M Series E led by StepStone Group at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $560M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian instant grocery delivery startup Zepto raised a $200M Series E led by StepStone Group at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $560M  —  Instant grocery delivery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion, it said Friday …

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Next-Gen Autopilot Puts a Robot at the Controls

While the concept of automotive “autopilots” are still in their infancy, pretty much any aircraft larger than an ultralight will have some mechanism to at least hold a fixed course and altitude. Typically the autopilot system is built into the airplane’s controls, but this new system replaces the pilot themselves in a manner reminiscent of

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How YouTube plans to integrate creators into its NFL Sunday Ticket programming, as the company looks to be a “one-stop shop for multiple types of video content” (Ainsley Harris/Fast Company)

Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: How YouTube plans to integrate creators into its NFL Sunday Ticket programming, as the company looks to be a “one-stop shop for multiple types of video content”  —  College football’s brightest stars, dressed in their snappiest suits, assembled beneath gray skies and the beaux-arts grandeur …

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Customs data shows China’s chip production tool imports in June and July 2023 totaled nearly $5B, up 70% YoY from $2.9B, mostly from Netherlands and Japan (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Customs data shows China’s chip production tool imports in June and July 2023 totaled nearly $5B, up 70% YoY from $2.9B, mostly from Netherlands and Japan  —  Data shows surge in June and July purchases ahead of export curbs by Japan and the Netherlands  —  China’s imports of semiconductor equipment …

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Microsoft researchers say Flax Typhoon, a hacking group with suspected links to the Chinese government, is actively targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan (AJ Vicens/CyberScoop)

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: Microsoft researchers say Flax Typhoon, a hacking group with suspected links to the Chinese government, is actively targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan  —  A group dubbed Flax Typhoon has targeted “dozens” of Taiwanese organizations, according to new research from Microsoft.

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Ikigai Labs, which offers a no-code generative AI service built using large graphical models for tabular data, raised a $25M Series A led by Premji Invest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ikigai Labs, which offers a no-code generative AI service built using large graphical models for tabular data, raised a $25M Series A led by Premji Invest  —  Organizations are awash in data, but struggle with a host of challenges to actually use, organize and analyze that data.

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Microsoft researchers say Flax Typhoon, a hacking group with suspected links to the Chinese government, is actively targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan (AJ Vicens/CyberScoop)

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: Microsoft researchers say Flax Typhoon, a hacking group with suspected links to the Chinese government, is actively targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan  —  A group dubbed Flax Typhoon has targeted “dozens” of Taiwanese organizations, according to new research from Microsoft.

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Reddit launches the “Mod Helper Program”, a tiered system that rewards moderators with trophies and flairs for helping other moderators in r/ModSupport (Morgan Sung/TechCrunch)

Morgan Sung / TechCrunch: Reddit launches the “Mod Helper Program”, a tiered system that rewards moderators with trophies and flairs for helping other moderators in r/ModSupport  —  Reddit is launching the “Mod Helper Program” to reward moderators who offer helpful advice to other moderators, along with an updated moderator help center.

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Supremely-tough Glass Performs Under Pressure

There’s some nifty research from the University of Bayreuth, together with partners in China and the U.S., on creating supremely tough aluminosilicate glass that boasts an unusual structure. The image above represents regular glass structure on the left, and the paracrystalline structure on the right. Aluminosilicate, which contains silicon, aluminum, boron and oxygen, is a

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