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OpenAI's crawlers accidentally DDoS'd an e-commerce site. Triplegangers, a seven-person company, had its site taken down when OpenAI's bots relentlessly tried to scrape the entire catalog. The culprit? A misconfigured robots.txt file. It's a stark reminder that even "friendly" AI can wreak havoc if we're not careful with the basics. Next time your product manager asks "But did you update the robots.txt?", maybe don't roll your eyes.

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Meta's CEO claims Apple "hasn't really invented anything great in a while." Bold words from the guy whose biggest recent innovation is... legs in VR? Still, he's not entirely wrong about Apple's App Store stranglehold. The walled garden is starting to look more like Alcatraz for developers.

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Meta and Amazon are scaling back their diversity programs, calling them "outdated" and "charged." It's almost as if treating diversity as a checkbox exercise rather than a core value leads to... exactly this outcome. Who could have possibly seen this coming? Oh right, everyone who's been paying attention.

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• TSMC's 4nm chips now rolling off Arizona production lines, on par with Taiwan yields. Looks like "made in America" might actually mean something in tech again. Read more
• Underground market for employee referrals at tech giants emerges. Because nothing says "culture fit" like buying your way in through a stranger. Read more
• Microsoft sues service creating illicit content with its AI. When your creation starts creating things you don't like, just sue it into oblivion! Read more

If AI can accidentally DDoS a site by being too curious, how long until we see the first AI-driven cyberattack that claims "I was just trying to learn"?

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