Tootfinder

For those out of the Loop:
#Google, #Meta, Microsoft, any of the tech companies who provide "portals" to news and content, scrape this content and shove it in a feed that they have control over (obstensibly based on your "habits" and "preferences"). The portal keeps the $ad.revenue$ th…

The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841222/rsl-licensing-ai-spec-launch

A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
A licensing standard aimed at making AI companies pay for the content they scrape across the web is now official. With the publication of the RSL 1.0 spec, publishers can dictate licensing rules and indicate whether they want their content to appear in AI search.

The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841222/rsl-licensing-ai-spec-launch

A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
A licensing standard aimed at making AI companies pay for the content they scrape across the web is now official. With the publication of the RSL 1.0 spec, publishers can dictate licensing rules and indicate whether they want their content to appear in AI search.

Towards fully predictive gyrokinetic full-f simulations
A. C. D. Hoffmann, T. N. Bernard, M. Francisquez, G. W. Hammett, A. Hakim, J. Boedo, R. Rizkallah, C. K. Tsui, the TCV team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11874

Towards fully predictive gyrokinetic full-f simulations
Designing economical magnetic confinement fusion power plants motivates computational tools that can estimate plasma behavior from engineering parameters without direct reliance on experimental measurement of the plasma profiles. In this work, we present full-$f$ global gyrokinetic (GK) turbulence simulations of edge and scrape-off layer turbulence in tokamaks that use only magnetic geometry, heating power, and particle inventory as inputs. Unlike many modeling approaches that employ free param…

Podcast: Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs https://www.404media.co/podcast-landlords-demand-your-workplace-logins-to-scrape-paystubs/

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs https://www.404media.co/landlords-demand-tenants-workplace-logins-to-scrape-their-paystubs/

You live your delusion of purpose, I live mine of zero fucks given, nobody's appearance matters in the cosmic joke anyway.
Be whatever self you scrape together, I don't care, looks mean shit to me when bad mindsets breed harm.
I'm not mad, I'm not lost, I just don't care about looks but do care about mindset, so be happy and be you.

The impact of plasma turbulence on atomic reaction rates in detached divertors
Konrad Eder, Wladimir Zholobenko, Andreas Stegmeir, Kaiyu Zhang, Frank Jenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09579

The impact of plasma turbulence on atomic reaction rates in detached divertors
Numerical plasma models of the edge and scrape-off layer rely on reaction rates to describe key atomic processes such as ionization, recombination, charge-exchange, and line radiation. These rates depend non-linearly on local density and temperature, and are thus sensitive to turbulent fluctuations. We present an analysis of atomic rates and their dependence on turbulent fluctuations, obtained from GRILLIX edge turbulence simulations in detached divertor conditions. Ionization, recombination an…

LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles
ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform.

Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores." (Itzel Luna/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-22/ice-out-of-home-depot-monrovia
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p50#a251123p50

I had an XC7S25 in the pile, but it cracked pretty badly so I probably won't bother to image it. There's a second one still intact.
I really need a better process for dealing with fiberglass laminate substrates and getting dice off them. The dies on these packages were exposed for 15 minutes of cooking as I tried to get the acid to slowly penetrate the laminate, periodically removing it from the acid, cleaning, using a scalpel to scrape loose glass fibers off the surface, peel…

Why are AI companies bringing out browsers?
People are suggesting it's so that they can scrape secretly off the back of the browsing public, but that doesn't make much sense to me.
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Whirling frost patterns
Such delicate tracery
Now scrape the windshield.
#dailyhaikuprompt - frost
#haiku
#poem

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perpl…

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perpl…

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.