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The Photo That Can Prove It Is a Photo
Apple's new iPhones can sign a photo inside the camera sensor, an industry coalition prefers a label that travels with the file, and two hobbyists hid the seal in the pixels. All three can prove where a picture came from. None of them can say what was in front of the lens.
The Morning All the AIs Went Down
Three AI chatbots fell over in one morning and the internet picked a single villain, but the boring truth is about shared buildings and what 'redundant' really promises.
The Internet's Politest File Just Got a Doorman
Since 1994, the web's oldest defense against unwanted robots has been a text file politely asking them to leave. On 21 August, Cloudflare started writing that file for you. And on 15 September, for new ad-funded websites behind Cloudflare, the default answer to "may I train on this?" flips to no.
Everyone's Editor Tried to Help at Once
GitHub went down on 17 August for seven hours and forty-seven minutes. The thing that broke was fixed in about three. The other five hours were millions of code editors, all politely asking again, forever, because nobody had taught them to wait.