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It sure is nice to have the web look the way you want—without all the usual awkward font choices and other assorted distractions—isn’t it? Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored a slew of interesting ...

PCWorld demonstrates how OpenAI’s Codex can generate a complete personal homepage in under a minute using AI-powered “vibe coding” techniques. The process involves installing Codex, creating an empty ...

The launch of agent-based browsing from ChatGPT and Perplexity's new Comet browser marks a turning point in how AI platforms evaluate and cite content. Instead of blindly scraping text, today's AI ...

Tom Fenton used AI-assisted vibe coding to create and deploy a free, cloud-hosted static web page. GitHub Pages provided a no-cost way to host static HTML content without servers, databases, or paid ...

A new webpage under the official whitehouse.gov domain, rolled out five years after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, rewrites the history of the attack on the Capitol that took place as Congress was ...

Anthropic’s legal troubles show no signs of abating. Last month, Judge Eumi K. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied Anthropic PBC’s second motion to dismiss in ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose work helped bring down Theranos is now taking on Silicon Valley’s biggest AI players — accusing them of looting his books to build billion-dollar ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don’t cause autism now says they might. The contents of the webpage came up during Health Secretary ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...