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AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways.While any website might be targeted by bad crawler behavior sometimes taking down the site open source developers are disproportionately impacted, writes Niccol Venerandi, developer of a Linux desktop known as Plasma and owner of the blog LibreNews.By their nature, sites hosting free and open source (FOSS) projects share more of their infrastructure publicly, and they also tend to have fewer resources than commercial products.The issue is that many AI bots dont honor the Robots Exclusion Protocol robot.txt file, the tool that tells bots what not to crawl, originally created for search engine bots.In a cry for help blog post in January, FOSS developer Xe Iaso described how AmazonBot relentlessly pounded on a Git server website to the point of causing DDoS outages. Git servers host FOSS projects so that anyone who wants can download the code or contribute to it.But this bot ignored Iasos robot.txt, hid behind other IP addresses, and pretended to be other users, Iaso said.Its futile to block AI crawler bots because they lie, change their user agent, use residential IP addresses as proxies, and more, Iaso lamented.They will scrape your site until it falls over, and then they will scrape it some more. They will click every link on every link on every link, viewing the same pages over and over and over and over. Some of them will even click on the same link multiple times in the same second, the developer wrote in the post.Enter the god of gravesSo Iaso fought back with cleverness, building a tool called Anubis.Anubis is a reverse proxy proof-of-work check that must be passed before requests are allowed to hit a Git server. It blocks bots but lets through browsers operated by humans.The funny part: Anubis is the name of a god in Egyptian mythology who leads the dead to judgment.Anubis weighed your soul (heart) and if it was heavier than a feather, your heart got eaten and you, like, mega died, Iaso told TechCrunch. If a web request passes the challenge and is determined to be human, a cute anime picture announces success. The drawing is my take on anthropomorphizing Anubis, says Iaso. If its a bot, the request gets denied.The wryly named project has spread like the wind among the FOSS community. Iaso shared it on GitHub on March 19, and in just a few days, it collected 2,000 stars, 20 contributors, and 39 forks.Vengeance as defenseThe instant popularity of Anubis shows that Iasos pain is not unique. In fact, Venerandi shared story after story:Founder CEO of SourceHut Drew DeVault described spending from 20-100% of my time in any given week mitigating hyper-aggressive LLM crawlers at scale, and experiencing dozens of brief outages per week.Jonathan Corbet, a famed FOSS developer who runs Linux industry news site LWN, warned that his site was being slowed by DDoS-level traffic from AI scraper bots.Kevin Fenzi, the sysadmin of the enormous Linux Fedora project, said the AI scraper bots had gotten so aggressive, he had to block the entire country of Brazil from access.Venerandi tells TechCrunch that he knows of multiple other projects experiencing the same issues. One of them had to temporarily ban all Chinese IP addresses at one point.Let that sink in for a moment that developers even have to turn to banning entire countries just to fend off AI bots that ignore robot.txt files, says Venerandi.Beyond weighing the soul of a web requester, other devs believe vengeance is the best defense.A few days ago on Hacker News, user xyzal suggested loading robot.txt forbidden pages with a bucket load of articles on the benefits of drinking bleach or articles about positive effect of catching measles on performance in bed.Think we need to aim for the bots to get _negative_ utility value from visiting our traps, not just zero value, xyzal explained.As it happens, in January, an anonymous creator known as Aaron released a tool called Nepenthes that aims to do exactly that. It traps crawlers in an endless maze of fake content, a goal that the dev admitted to Ars Technica is aggressive if not downright malicious. The tool is named after a carnivorous plant.And Cloudflare, perhaps the biggest commercial player offering several tools to fend off AI crawlers, last week released a similar tool called AI Labyrinth.Its intended to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that dont respect no crawl directives, Cloudflare described in its blog post. Cloudflare said it feeds misbehaving AI crawlers irrelevant content rather than extracting your legitimate website data.SourceHuts DeVault told TechCrunch that Nepenthes has a satisfying sense of justice to it, since it feeds nonsense to the crawlers and poisons their wells, but ultimately Anubis is the solution that worked for his site.But DeVault also issued a public, heartfelt plea for a more direct fix: Please stop legitimizing LLMs or AI image generators or GitHub Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop.Since the likelihood of that is zilch, developers, particularly in FOSS, are fighting back with cleverness and a touch of humor.

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Hamilton College - Statue of Alexander HamiltonJohn WernerIn mainstream American culture, many people have been bashing certain kinds of liberal arts degrees for a long time.It was decades ago that the critics started talking about how English majors, or philosophy majors, or history majors, for example, were likely to inhabit their parents attics or basements after graduation. Et tu, Garrison Keillor.That was well before we started to automate all kinds of knowledge work decades later.Sometimes, these days, it seems like were automating more of the white-collar stuff then the basics, where robots could be moving furniture, and painting houses, and taking out the garbage.Artificial intelligence has cut through industries like accounting and legal like a hot knife through butter. Paralegal jobs are getting automated. So are reporting jobs. And dont forget: the large language models can write poetry, too, or compose songs.So whats the future of the liberal arts degree?Holding the Computers AccountableIts not hard to find essays by technology enthusiasts, talking about how the humanities graduates will provide the human touch that modern processes still need in the age of AI.It will be important for students to learn to harness the power of AI, writes Emily Todd, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University. In order to do so, theyll need to evaluate different AI tools, assess the content and responses AI generates, and recognize biases baked into the algorithms and source information from which AI pulls. Their liberal arts training and education will prepare them to use AI responsibly. Through their studies, they grapple with difficult questions. They learn to look at challenges from multiple perspectives.Students who earn degrees in liberal arts and humanities may actually have an advantage in the job market over those who specialize in STEM-based programming, writes Danielle McLean at Higher Ed Dive, quoting Robert Gibson, director of instructional design at Wichita State University Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology.These are vociferous and somewhat compelling thoughts about how well view these disciplines in 20 years.All that said, there are still some practical issues to think about when youre advising young people on their careers.I talked to Joe Shelly, VP of libraries at Hamilton College, at Davos this January at our IIA event, about the liberal arts degrees future.Shelly noted the eye-opening pace of change and talked about how professionals experience aha moments (my phrase) as they encounter AI at every turn.The great thing about our librarians is: they have roughly 1000 years worth of experience as a profession, (on) the understanding of information ecologies, nevermind whether that information is in a book or being generated by an LLM, he said. These are the folks that can really help students navigate truth and fiction, understand what the world's going to look like, how to interrogate sources, how to be critical about the way we consume and distribute information in the future.The Power of Critical ThinkingMaking a case for the American university as a whole, Shelly argued that these are the great institutions best positioned to solve problems that havent been created yet. He mentioned hearing Yann LeCun, prior head of research at Meta, talking about the inspiring piece of change and suggesting gen AI has about 3 to 5 years.That's a message I want to take back and deliver to our students right now, to make sure that they deeply understand that this world is evolving while they're in college, he said. They're going to be the contributors to what's being invented right now.Pick Your Best MajorWe also talked a bit about the changing choices that our young people make. In past years, Shelly pointed out, students have been likely to major in business for practicality, and then choose a second major that represents their passion, whether thats art, language, history or anything else.Ultimately, we agreed, students may not have to do that anymore, because AI will be able to be embedded in any college discipline.(Later in the interview, I talked about holding a first edition de Toqueville book, and being there when the Alexander Hamilton statue was put up).A Time Like No OtherRuminating on the history of communications, Shelly talked about writing as a way to express thinking, and theorized about the possible frameworks well have in place to craft the future. You can hear more in the video, but this conversation, to me, illustrated whats going to happen to education as AI continues to evolve.

LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 14: Dana White meets with the press following Vegas 67 at UFC Apex for UFC ... More Fight Night - Vegas 67 - Strickland vs Imavov - Event on January 14, 2023 in Las Vegas, NV, United States. (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThe UFC made three fairly noteworthy roster cuts this week, and one of them was the release of Antonina Shevchenko, the sister of reigning UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko.On Thursday, Antonina, 40, the oldest of the two Shevchenko sisters, announced her retirement from mixed martial arts on her Instagram page. Her message was lengthy and heartfelt, which displays why she was a fan favorite during her eight fights in the UFC.NEWARK, NJ - AUGUST 03: Antonina Shevchenko of Kyrgyzstan poses for a portrait backstage during the ... More UFC Fight Night event at the Prudential Center on August 3, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesDear friends, Shevchenko wrote. "I didnt have the opportunity to leave my gloves in the octagon by tradition, I didnt think my fight in UFC in 2022 would be the last. I am leaving my gloves in this post." Before coming to the UFC, like her sisters, she was an accomplished kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter. "30 years in sport, black belt 3rd dan in Taekwondo, 11 World Champion titles in Muay Thai, Kickboxing and MMA. More than 400 fights in amateurs and professionals, Asian and SouthAmerican Champion, UFC fighter. This is how I finish my career in professional sport. Of course, martial arts continue to be big part of my life but in different way Its time to be focused on the next page - my career as a pilot. My heart and my head are completely filled with airplanes and sky and its hard to express how happy I am that aviation has come into my life!"At the end of Shevchenkos post, she shouted out Valentina and invited fans to cheer her on as she continues her career in the UFC. And of course, thanks to the fans who cheered up and supported! We will cheer together for my sister now! @bulletvalentina.JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - APRIL 24: (L-R) Valentina Shevchenko of Kyrgyzstan poses with her sister ... More Antonina Shevchenko for a post fight portrait backstage during the UFC 261 event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on April 24, 2021 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC)Zuffa LLCShevchenkos decision comes as no surprise as she hasnt fought in nearly three years. Shevchenko also recently had a son and has taken up a career as a pilot, according to her Instagram page.It appears Shevchenko and the promotion have parted on good terms, and Valentinasomeone UFC CEO Dana White has always spoken glowingly aboutis set to defend her title against Manon Fiorot on May 10 at UFC 315.Antoninas last fight was a unanimous decision win over Cortney Casey in July 2022. The victory snapped a two-fight losing streak and, as it turns out, was likely the best possible retirement bout for her.While Antoninas career never reached the heights of her younger sisters, the formers 10-4 career mark is above average. She owns wins over Ji Yeon Kim, Lucie Pudilova, Ariane Lipski da Silva and Casey.Here is a breakdown of Shevchenkos MMA career record.Antonina Shevchenkos Career MMA RecordApril 2002Opponent: Anara BayanovaLocation: Bishkek, KyrgyzstanEvent: KFK: Cup of KyrgyzstanResult: Win via TKO (punches), Round 2September 2003Opponent: Hyun Sung KimLocation: Seoul, South KoreaEvent: WXF: X-Impact World Championships 2003Result: Win via Decision (unanimous), Round 3September 2005Opponent: Hyun Sung KimLocation: Seoul, South KoreaEvent: WXF: X-Impact World Championships 2005Result: Win via Decision (unanimous), Round 3March 11, 2017Opponent: Anissa HaddaouiLocation: London, EnglandEvent: Phoenix FC 3: UK vs. The WorldResult: Win via Decision (unanimous), Round 3December 22, 2017Opponent: Valrie DomergueLocation: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesEvent: Phoenix FC 4: DubaiResult: Win via Decision (unanimous), Round 3June 26, 2018Opponent: Jaimelene NieveraLocation: Las Vegas, Nevada, USAEvent: Dana White's Contender Series 11Result: Win via TKO (knees), Round 2November 30, 2018Opponent: Ji Yeon KimLocation: Las Vegas, Nevada, USAEvent: The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters FinaleResult: Win via Decision (unanimous), Round 3Note: Catchweight bout at 130.5 lbs (Kim missed weight)April 20, 2019Opponent: Roxanne ModafferiLocation: Saint Petersburg, RussiaEvent: UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. OleinikResult: Loss via Decision (split), Round 3August 3, 2019Opponent: Lucie PudilovLocation: Newark, New Jersey, USAEvent: UFC on ESPN: Covington vs. LawlerResult: Win via Technical Submission (rear-naked choke), Round 2Bonus: Fight of the NightMay 30, 2020Opponent: Katlyn Chookagian (now Cerminara)Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USAEvent: UFC on ESPN: Woodley vs. BurnsResult: Loss via Decision (unanimous), Round 3November 21, 2020Opponent: Ariane LipskiLocation: Las Vegas, Nevada, USAEvent: UFC 255Result: Win via TKO (punches), Round 2Bonus: Performance of the NightMay 15, 2021Opponent: Andrea LeeLocation: Houston, Texas, USAEvent: UFC 262Result: Loss via Submission (triangle armbar), Round 2October 2, 2021Opponent: Casey O'NeillLocation: Las Vegas, Nevada, USAEvent: UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. WalkerResult: Loss via TKO (punches), Round 2July 9, 2022Opponent: Cortney CaseyLocation: Las Vegas, Nevada, USAEvent: UFC on ESPN: dos Anjos vs. FizievResult: Win via Decision (split), Round 3

Table of ContentsTable of ContentsA Complete Unknown (2024)The Line (2023)The Truman Show (1998)Earlier this month, Hulu had the good fortune to add Anora to its lineup just a few weeks after it won Best Picture at the Oscars. This week, Hulu is adding another one of last years Best Picture nominees, A Complete Unknown. Naturally, its our top pick for the three great Hulu movies you need to stream this weekend.Our two remaining picks for the last weekend in March are a college drama and one of Jim Carreys best movies. Any or all of these films are a great way to close out the month from the comfort of your own home.Recommended VideosNeed more recommendations? We also have guides to the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max,andthe best movies on Disney+.RelatedSearchlight PicturesTimothe Chalamet and Ed Norton both received Oscar nominations for their respective performances as Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown. Norton has a large supporting role, but this is Chalamets movie from start to finish. And if Chalamet had won Best Actor at the Academy Awards, it would have been well-deserved.The film captures a period in time in Dylans life when he managed to break into the folk music scene. He also found romance with Sylvie Russo (Elle Fanning) while sharing undeniable chemistry with Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), a music legend in her own right. Regardless, Dylan is moved to find his own path in the industry, rather than following someone elses example. Thats going to lead to some bruised egos and broken relationships along the way.Watch A Complete Unknown on Hulu.UtopiaThe Line is all about college students with no concept of boundaries or the consequences of their own actions. Even after being warned by the dean, the guys of Kappa Nu Alpha gleefully flout the rules that were supposedly meant to keep them in check. Sophomore Tom Backster (Alex Wolff) even seems to be in line to be the next leader of the frat, especially since his rich friend, Mitch Miller (Bo Mitchell), supports him.Eventually, Mitch pushes things too far during a hazing ritual, and suddenly the stakes are very real for Tom and the others who took part in the incident. That forces Tom to decide where his true loyalties lie, and how far hes willing to go to escape the blame for something that could bring down the entire frat.Watch The Line on Hulu.Paramount Pictures / Paramount PicturesTruman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is the biggest star in the world; he just doesnt know it. And if the director, Christof (Ed Harris), has his way, Truman will never find out. In the world of the film, The Truman Show is a reality series that has chronicled every moment of Trumans life. Hes the only one who isnt aware that everyone around him is an actor, including his made-for-TV wife, Meryl (Laura Linney).A massive dome was constructed to keep Truman and his small town separated from the outside world. But when too many inexplicable things happen, Truman questions his reality and starts looking for a way out.Watch The Truman Show on Hulu.Editors Recommendations

Tired of seeing Facebook posts from people you dont follow taking precedence over posts from people in your friends list on your home feed? Facebook is making it easier to see what your friends and family are up to with the new Friends tab on the Facebook app.Meta announced in a blog post Thursday that Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada can experience a feed comprising only of content from their friends in the Friends tab. The company said the new tab is part of a series of OG Facebook features that it will be adding to the social media platform throughout the year, taking Facebook back to the 2000s.Recommended VideosThe Friends tab is located in the tab bar on the bottom of your Home feed. There, youll see your friends posts, stories, and videos (or Reels). Additionally, youll also see a list of recent birthdays, friend requests, and a banner of people you may know.MetaIf you dont see the Friends tab on the bottom of your screen, you can customize your tab bar to pin it on there. Just tap on your profile picture in the Home feed. Then go to Settings & Privacy, Settings, and Tab bar. Finally, choose the to pin the Friends tab. You can do the same thing by pressing down the tab bar and tapping Customize your tab bar.Please enable Javascript to view this contentThe Friends tab is similar to what Meta did for Threads shortly after it launched in 2o23, adding a Following tab to allow users to see posts only from people they follow instead of those they dont. X, formerly Twitter, added the same feature to keep feeds organized for its users. However, Facebooks added the Friends tab is to make the platform operate in a way Mark Zuckerberg originally intended a place for people to connect with their friends and family.Editors Recommendations

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Now that's what I call taking the initiative Pillars of Eternity is getting turn-based combat, all but demanding replays A surprising addition in patch notes for a 10-year-old CRPG classic. Kevin Purdy Mar 27, 2025 1:26 pm | 17 Credit: Obsidian Entertainment Credit: Obsidian Entertainment Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreI played a lot of Obsidian's Avowed after it came out. I appreciate that the game offers both a whole lot of world-building lore if you want it, but also the ability to skip it all if you want to get back to grimoires, guns, and scarfing food while dodging attacks. But all those gods and races and islands must have sunk in. As I neared the end of Avowed's journey, I find myself wondering about the earlier games in Obsidian's world of Eora in its Pillars of Eternity series, which passed me by entirely.The same thing happened withBaldur's Gate 3, which pulled me in deep and left me wondering if I'd dig the earlier titles. But after an hour or two in the first entry, I was done, for much the same reason as with the firstPillars: I just can't hack it (pun intended) in real-time-with-pause combat."Real-time-with-pause" has never been a perfect descriptor; technically, Avowed plays out in real time, as do most games, which also offer pausing. But look at a couple videos and you'll get the gist: Your party hacks, slashes, and casts largely on its own, but you can interject to redirect, re-equip, or force a potion on one of your crew. If you have control issues, or don't have the clicking speed you had as a younger gamer, real-time-with-pause can be a humbling experience. Game Design Foundry's video explainer on real-time, turn-based, and hybrid kinds of combat, including Pillars of Eternity. So it is that a patch forPillars of Eternity (PoE), 10 years old this week, contains a masterfully underplayed bit of great news: "Coming later this year, Watchers will be able to help us test a brand-new feature: Turn-Based Combat." There will be details on how to sign up as a tester "in the near future," with fans advised to watch Obsidian's socials and Discord.More than just rolling for initiativeObsidian added a turn-based mode toPillars of Eternity II: Deadfire in patch 4.1, roughly eight months after the game's initial release. Designer Josh Sawyer, who worked onBaldur's Gate IIand directedbothPoE games, said in a 2023 interview with Touch Arcade that the real-time systems in the PoEgames were largely a concession to the old-school CRPG fans that crowdfunded both games.Turn-based was Sawyer's stated preference, and he thinks Baldur's Gate 3 largely put an end to the debate in modern times:I just think its easier to design more intricate combats. I like games with a lot of stats, obviously. (He laughs). But the problem with real time with pause is that its honestly very difficult for people to actually parse all of that information, and one of the things Ive heard a lot from people whove played Deadfire in turn based, is that there were things about the game like the affliction and inspiration system that they didnt really understand very clearly until they played it in turn based.But bothPillarsgames were designed with real-time combat in mind, such that, even with his appreciation for the turn-based addition toPoE 2, Sawyer knows "the game wasn't designed for it," he told Touch Arcade. This is almost certainly going to be the case, too, for the originalPoE, but there could be lessons learned fromPoE 2's transformation to apply. Other games from that era might also lure folks like me back, though perhaps they, too, have a density of encounters and maps that just can't cut it for turn-based.Beyond this notably big "patch" coming to the originalPoE, the 10th anniversary patch should make it easier for Mac and Linux (through Proton) users to stay up to date on bug fixes, and for players on GOG and Epic to get Kickstarter rewards and achievements. Lots of audio and visual effects were fixed up, along with a whole heap of mechanical and combat fixes.Kevin PurdySenior Technology ReporterKevin PurdySenior Technology Reporter Kevin is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering open-source software, PC gaming, home automation, repairability, e-bikes, and tech history. He has previously worked at Lifehacker, Wirecutter, iFixit, and Carbon Switch. 17 Comments