People who post on Reddit often love to complain, especially if it’s about Reddit itself. Now they have a legit reason to do so.
The massive network of online discussion forums and social news aggre… [+4582 chars]

Many are worried that killing RSS feeds will destroy one of the last open, user-controlled ways to read the web.

CNET

Reddit Is Choking Off RSS and Open Web Access to Keep AI Bots Out

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The new policy allows Meta to crawl all websites associated with a business account.
The new policy allows Meta to crawl all websites associated with a business… [+3273 chars]

Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say M…

The Verge

Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free

Pebble smartwatches could soon become even better alternatives to the Apple Watch and Pixel Watch thanks to a new series of plugins that Pebble founder and Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky says will … [+2345 chars]

The change allows for watchOS-style complications and new features for Core Devices' Index rings.

Gizmodo.com

Pebble Just Made It Even Easier to Make Cool Watch Faces

A forthcoming update to Meta’s terms of service allows Meta “or any entity acting on our behalf” to scrape the websites of any business using a Meta service for commercial purposes.
Meta already scr… [+5440 chars]

That's right: If a business uses Meta for any commercial purpose, Meta's new terms say it can do almost anything it wants with content from that business's website, like feeding it to Muse.

Meta to Literally Every Business User: Nice Website You Got There

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A patch is about to roll out, but the exploit affects more than 40 percent of the internet.
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Security patches for the PHP programming language, widely used to build websites and web apps, are expected to roll out today, with the goal of fixing two critical vulnerabilities that could wreak havoc on the internet if left unchecked. In an advisory publis…

A critical programming vulnerability may take websites down today

Screenshot of the first alpha of what we initially called SmartFox and then Firefox Scholar, before we consulted 1) a lawyer, and 2) an Albanian dictionary for other options, June 2006
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Today,… [+21526 chars]

How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions

Dancohen.org

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

If you wanted to become a web designer 15 years ago, going to school made sense. You needed someone to teach you HTML, CSS, Photoshop, typography, UX and all the other mysterious things people on the… [+4439 chars]