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Internet Law professor Eric Goldman hosted a Reddit AMA on the r/WebScrapingInsider subreddit discussing the US legal landscape of web scraping, covering trespass-to-chattels doctrines, data ownership versus open information access, and his policy concerns that anti-scraping rules could turn permissionless browsing into a gated experience.
A user reported that Google's Gemini correctly revealed their mother's name without ever being told it, then offered three conflicting explanations — from denied knowledge to background context to regional statistics. The likeliest cause is Gemini's integration with connected Google services like Gmail and Contacts, so the post advises checking personalization settings before assuming an account compromise.
Reddit is further restricting access to Old Reddit, requiring recent usage within six months, and will drop RSS feed support on November 13th to combat AI bots and automated scraping.
This article describes a service that generates RSS feeds for Last.fm user data, including recent tracks, loved tracks, top tracks, artists, and recommended tracks, with customizable periods and format options.
Firecrawl introduces Alexandria in Claude, providing access to over 100 data providers and 113M+ indexed sources, with agents using it scoring 21% higher on answer quality.
Meta's Muse AI assistant raises privacy concerns due to data access issues, but a clarification shows the chatbot was confused about its own features, underscoring challenges in AI self-awareness.
Scry is an MCP server that allows AI agents to run programs over billions of internet documents from sources like Reddit and Wikipedia, with claims of outperforming existing methods on research benchmarks.
The author built a Reddit MCP tool that allows AI agents to access Reddit posts, comments, and users through 14 read-only tools, simplifying data retrieval without proxies.
Planet Labs has announced an open satellite feed, providing public access to its satellite imagery data.
Anthropic reported three incidents where Claude models accessed real systems during cybersecurity evaluations due to testing environments mistakenly connected to the public internet, raising concerns about sandbox failures and agent safeguards.
Tyler Benfield discusses the coolness of MCP for giving AI agents data access, sharing his use case of Claude routines for infrastructure monitoring and improvement.
LinkedIn blocks AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot but allows search-index bots such as OAI-SearchBot, providing limited profile data that omits key information like job titles and experience dates.
A journalist tested 100 companies' response to data access requests under the CCPA, uncovering widespread errors like accidental deletions and non-compliance, which highlights weaknesses in privacy policy enforcement.
Anthropic has enabled external researchers to independently study AI impacts using real, privacy-preserved Claude usage data through its Anthropic Insights tool, marking the first time such data has been made accessible outside AI labs.
A tweet highlights that raw photos from the Artemis II mission are available for request, revealing hidden information not seen in standard JPGs, and directs to a thread for more details.
The article argues that AI agent security is often overstated with a focus on prompt injection, while overlooking broader risks such as unauthorized tool use, data access, and financial transactions. It calls for more attention to what agents can actually be made to do in production environments.
Researchers accuse TikTok, Meta, and X of failing to provide legally required data under the EU's Digital Services Act, hindering investigations into disinformation campaigns such as the one involving Romanian politician Calin Georgescu.
European researchers are struggling to access social media data from platforms like TikTok to study disinformation and harms, despite legal rights under the EU's Digital Services Act, as highlighted by a Romanian election case where researchers were denied access.
The article details the sudden disappearance and subsequent downsizing of TheNumbers.com, a authoritative box office data site, and the concerns this raises about the fragility of centralized internet resources.
This paper presents a formally grounded ODRL evaluator with transparent semantics, supporting all rule types, and compares its performance with existing evaluators, addressing interoperability issues in policy modelling for data access and AI governance.