Updated: Meta is drawing heated criticism due to commercial terms that authorize the company to scrape business users’ web pages for product development. The Steampunk Explorer provided the tip that ...

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Parse JSON in Python with json.loads and json.load, read what each error means, and get JSON out of APIs and web pages with JMESPath and ChompJS.

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Policymakers should resist treating anonymity as something wrong in and of itself, argue Lila Bailey and Tess Vartanian.

Major technology enterprises are uniting behind a unified protocol for web publishers. Specifically, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic now support a new AI training preference standard. This specification enables website administrators to declare content usage policies within standard robots.txt files. Furthermore, webmasters can express training permissions across multiple platforms with a single rule set. Consequently, publishers gain transparent governance over how proprietary content trains foundational models.