A familiar message claiming to block Facebook from using users’ photos and personal information is circulating again, but the post has no legal standing and does not change how the platform handles ...

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work in a fast-food restaurant, in which we only go by our first names. Often, when customers decide that I am the cause of whatever is not going their way, they ask me for my ...

Believe it or not, web search is still thriving as an industry. As businesses invest in using AI agents to make the most of their data, there’s demand for tools that not only scrape the web to inform ...

The big picture: The US State Department is reportedly developing a website to give users in Europe and other regions access to content blocked by their governments. The site, to be hosted at ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

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Learning a new language before the Internet was brutal. It involved dense textbooks and a bunch of in-person classes, spending innumerable hours en route to full fluency. We've come a long way since ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...