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Cloudflare announced a major policy shift that could reshape the dynamics between content creators and AI companies.Beginning Tuesday, the company will automatically block AI crawlers from scraping the websites it powers, unless site owners explicitly opt in. This makes Cloudflare the first major internet infrastructure provider to enforce a default permission-based model for AI content access.The move comes amid growing concerns from content creators and publishers that AI giants are exploiting their work without consent or compensation.Historically, search engines have indexed content in a way that drives traffic and ad revenue back to original sources. But AI bot crawlers, used…

Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies — ideally giving publishers greater control over their content. For the last year, Cloudflare has launched tools for publishers to address the rampant rise of AI crawlers, including a one-click solution to block all AI bots, as well as a dashboard to view how AI crawlers are visiting their site. In a 2024 interview, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told TechCrunch these products were laying a foundation for a new type of…

No Mitch Marner. No Aaron Ekblad. No Brad Marchand.No frenzy?With a majority of the NHL’s top-projected free-agent talent already off the market, the 32 teams face relatively slim pickings entering the league’s annual signing period opening Tuesday at noon EDT.A record $7.5 million jump in the NHL’s salary cap led to many teams locking up their own talent to long-term deals in advance of free agency.The Vegas Golden Knights proved the big winners, acquiring Marner in a sign-and-trade deal agreed to Monday with Toronto to land free-agency’s most prized player. And the two-time defending champion Florida Panthers took Ekblad and…

The stakes couldn’t be higher for the most important AI relationship in tech.OpenAI isn’t just the highest-valued AI startup on Earth. It also has a “strategic partnership” with Microsoft that gives the tech giant access to its IP, a big cut of its revenue, and right of first refusal on any alternative cloud provider. Microsoft has earned that kind of power by plowing over $13 billion into OpenAI since 2019.As OpenAI has boomed, tensions over the terms of the deal, which lasts until 2030, are boiling over. OpenAI has even considered reporting Microsoft to antitrust regulators for anticompetitive behavior, while…

Dairy products might be meddling with your dreams.New research published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology surveyed sleep habits, particularly dreams, and compared them with peoples’ eating habits. One of the findings? The worse lactose intolerance symptoms people had, the more intense their nightmares were.The study may offer some answers to questions raised by research from 2015 that looked at factors that influence “food-dependent dreaming” — in other words, how foods affect dreams.“In the earlier study, people were blaming cheese all the time for their bad dreams,” said Tore Nielsen, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal…

Uterine cancer cases in the U.S. will rise significantly by 2050, with Black women three times more likely to die from it, a study from the American Association for Cancer Research projects.Uterine cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the U.S. In 2024, there were almost 70,000 cases, according to the National Cancer Institute.Over the past 30 years, uterine cancer cases and deaths have jumped. NCI data shows that between 2015 and 2019, there was about a 2% increase in new cases per year, the highest for any cancer in women.FDA considers issuing proposed rule to ban formaldehyde in…

Sometime last year, Ian Lamont’s inbox began piling up with inquiries about a job listing. The Boston-based owner of a how-to guide company hadn’t opened any new positions, but when he logged onto LinkedIn, he found one for a “Data Entry Clerk” linked to his business’s name and logo.Lamont soon realized his brand was being scammed, which he confirmed when he came across the profile of someone purporting to be his company’s “manager.” The account had fewer than a dozen connections and an AI-generated face. He spent the next few days warning visitors to his company’s site about the scam…

Microsoft said its medical AI diagnosed cases four times as accurately as human doctors.The AI system also solved cases “more cost-effectively” than its human counterparts, Microsoft said.The study comes as AI’s growing role in healthcare raises questions about its place in medicine.Microsoft said its medical AI system diagnosed cases more accurately than human doctors by a wide margin.In a blog post published on Monday, the tech giant said its AI system, the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator, diagnosed cases four times as accurately as a group of experienced physicians in a test.Microsoft’s study comes as AI tools rapidly make their way…

LONDON (AP) — It was not her best goal or most important soccer match, but when the ball hit the back of the net in Natalie Washington’s debut on a women’s team in 2017, she felt a sense of belonging that had been missing.It was long in coming: Washington had struggled to fit in on a men’s team and eventually stopped playing when she decided to transition to being a woman and go through gender-affirming surgery. When she joined a women’s team, she quickly felt accepted.Now, after the United Kingdom’s highest court in April said that for anti-discrimination purposes the…

LONDON (AP) — John McEnroe — he of “You cannot be serious!” call-arguing fame — is quite all right with Wimbledon’s latest of many steps into the modern era, choosing technology over the human touch to decide whether a ball lands in or out.There were no line judges at the All England Club’s matches for Monday’s start of the oldest Grand Slam tournament, with rulings instead being made by an electronic system that uses recorded voices to announce when a shot lands astray.“In some ways, the players, and even the fans, miss that interaction, but at the same time ……