Hosted on MSN

Google sues web scraper for pretending to be fake people

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing it of doing the digital equivalent of sneaking into Google Search with a fake mustache and stealing everything not nailed down. Supreme Court ...
The Verge

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...
IEEE

Mining social media data based on Python web crawler technology --Taking Sina Weibo data analysis as an example

Abstract: In the context of the big data era, the extensive penetration of the Internet and the rapid development of database technology have led to an explosive growth in the amount of data generated ...
New Atlas

World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Zhu, L. (2025) Analysis of Technological Innovation and Competitive Advantage in New Energy Vehicle Industry: BYD as an Example. SHS Web of Conferences, 218, Article 01031.

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the brand internationalization strategy of BYD, a leading Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs), focusing on the underlying motivations, opportunities, and ...
The New York Times

Harris’s Memoir Is Another Example of the Democrats’ Problem

Three Opinion writers break down the former vice president’s book of excuses. By Michelle Cottle Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen Produced by Vishakha Darbha Three Opinion writers weigh in on Kamala ...
The Verge

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
Ars Technica

Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to ...
International Monetary Fund

A Python Package to Assist Macroframework Forecasting: Concepts and Examples

In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...
Developer Tech

State of Python 2025: Web development makes a comeback

The latest annual Python Developers Survey, born from a collaboration between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains, took the pulse of over 30,000 developers to see what makes the community ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
IEEE

A Comprehensive Analysis of Bandwidth and Size for Four-Types of Series-Combined Transformer-Based Doherty Output Networks: Theory and Examples

Abstract: This paper presents theory-driven design guidelines for four types of series-combined transformer (SCT)-based Doherty output matching networks to maximize bandwidth (BW). Novel and intuitive ...