79% of top news sites block at least one AI training bot, while 71% also block retrieval bots used for live AI search citations. Google-Extended is the least-blocked training bot at 46%, with US ...

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Drake called Spotify “Botify” during a live stream, creating irony as he faces the same bot allegations in a class-action lawsuit. Drake took a pointed jab at Spotify during a recent live stream with ...

Instagram has announced a new restriction to control the increasing hashtag spam on the platform. The social media giant has confirmed that posts and reels will soon be limited to a small number of ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

The Nets are more than a quarter of the way through their charade of a season. In the first six weeks, they have battled several members of their tanking brethren, who choose to pray for a draft ...

Engadget staffers love our hardware, from high-end gaming headsets to powerful heaters to the fabric shaver you never knew you needed. Cyber Monday has brought discounts to many of those things. I'm ...

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U.S. officials said they are making progress toward a document designed to end the nearly four-year, grinding war in Ukraine. But the push for peace is complicated by a leaked call from the chief ...