Last week, Federico and I asked Robb Knight to do what he could to block web crawlers deployed by artificial intelligence companies from scraping MacStories. Robb had already updated his own site’s ro

After 40 years, the punk band NOFX is walking away with a farewell tour that is nothing short of a victory lap. When they were teenagers, the group developed an extreme do-it-yourself ethos. They had

We’ve been working on a pretty cool client project recently that’s got some fun branding which required some image masking. Y’know, this sorta thing: See the Pen Mask image by Andy Bell (@piccalilli) on CodePen. .masked-image { mask-image: url(https://assets.codepen.io/174183/mask.svg); mask-repeat:…

What’s going on Internet? There’s a lot of Internet discourse recently about AI scraping the web to use all of our words to power their language models to then sell us AI powered products that we never asked for. Flamed Fury is hosted on a shared hosting plan which is Apache based and has access to…

When I envision the web, I picture an infinite expanse of empty space that stretches as far as the eye can see. It's full of fertile soil, but no seeds have taken root. That is, except for about an ac

Illustration: Vicky Leta Kimberly Gasuras doesn’t use AI. “I don’t need it,” she said. “I’ve been a news reporter for 24 years. How do you think I did all that work?” That logic wasn’t enough to save

Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images LOS ANGELES — UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley publicly rejected the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday, a brutal look for the NBA's most followed and scrutinized franch

One of these was a funny image I made. Ha. Ha. Ha. The keynote video was a real mixed bag. But not a mixed bag like Starburst candies where there are only a few good ones and you’ll still eat the other ones. This is a mixed bag like Starburst candies, artisanal chocolate truffles, and dog turds, and…

Reactions Like 202 Wow 4 Laugh 4 Fire 1 Twenty years ago, the hottest coach in all of college basketball interviewed with the Los Angeles Lakers and made a choice that reverberated through two levels

There are many motivations for people to pick up the habit of writing. For many, like James, Leticia and Alex, one motivation is to write to learn more. It’s also one of my motivations: teaching is a

The noxious growth-at-all-costs mindset of the Rot Economy sits at the core of every issue that I've ever written about. It’s the force that drives businesses to grow bigger rather than better, making more products to conquer more markets rather than making products or services that people need or…

“My big takeaway from this and every other Jack Dorsey news cycle is that I could easily get him to pay me $125,000 for a jug of something called Diarrhea Water in the understanding that it would ‘det

I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out of a deep depression by launching me into an incandescent rage. I’ve read enough on destigmatizing me

Just days after people gleefully posted their Spotify Wrapped, bad news came for the music streaming giant. Spotify announced today that it would cut 17 percent of its workforce, a chunk that equates

AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors often in poor countries paid small sums to correct chatbots and label im

Many of them never even heard of ChatGPT. Hype Dysphoria While CEOs and investors rush to jam AI into as many products as possible, the general public seems unable to give a hoot. In a new study condu

The DOJ alleges that Live Nation holds a monopoly over the ticketing industry. Image: The Verge / Kenishirotie (via Getty) The US Justice Department and 30 state and district attorneys general have fi

Image: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.

I don’t know if you’ve tried to use websites lately, but it’s largely a mess out there. It feels like things have descended in to a complete shitshow and are only getting worse. I know for some comrad

Listen to NoMeansNo on Spotify here! Canadian progressive punk trio NoMeansNo were formed in Victoria in 1979 by brothers Rob Wright (bass guitar and vocals) and John Wright (drums and vocals). Early

Editor’s note, May 18, 2024, 7:30 pm ET: This story has been updated to reflect OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s tweet on Saturday afternoon that the company was in the process of changing its offboarding docu

In the early 2000s we netizens used to find things by hypertext. Sure, you’d go to web directories like Yahoo! to look for a starting point, usually based on a…

This year’s Google I/O event was a strange affair. There was an unhinged DJ who yelled “NO ONE WROTE THIS! GOOGLE WROTE THIS!” while he sort of (?) demoed generative music that he was looping. Sundar