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I coded my own Spotify Wrapped with Python, here's how

Every year, Spotify releases “Wrapped,” an interactive infographic showing stats like your favourite artists and tracks you’ve listened to the most. There are ways to get hold of this data outside ...
CNET

Is That Link Legit? How to Spot and Avoid Scams in Your Inbox

"Smartphones do their best to block scam links, so attackers use tricks to make their links clickable," said Joshua McKenty, CEO of Polyguard.ai, a cybersecurity company that helps businesses protect ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

$10B data center plan in Page area faces pushback from residents

Some Page residents are expressing their concerns over proposed $10 billion data center in the area. Page City Council voted in October to approve a contract that allows a feasibility study. Critics ...
VentureBeat

The Google Search of AI agents? Fetch launches ASI:One and Business tier for new era of non-human web

Fetch AI, a startup founded and led by former DeepMind founding investor, Humayun Sheikh, today announced the release of three interconnected products designed to provide the trust, coordination, and ...
Page Six

Auction of cosmetics tycoon Leonard Lauder’s art collection is expected to fetch $500M

Even New York’s jaded art world is in a tizzy about Leonard Lauder’s collection coming on the market next week. Page Six hears there was a dinner Friday night for the hotly anticipated auction of the ...
Bleeping Computer

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...
Search Engine Land

Google Search rank and position tracking is a mess right now

Google removed the ability to see 100 search results per page and both third-party tracking tools and maybe even Search Console seem off since. If you are trying to understand your ranking position, ...
Wall Street Journal

The New AI Data Trade: Web Publishers and Startups Look to Cash In

AI companies need large quantities of data to fuel their large language models. Content and data from internet publishers and videos are important sources for them. But publishers and content creators ...
Wired

Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google

United States senator Maggie Hassan is pressing major data brokers after an investigation by The Markup/CalMatters and copublished by WIRED found at least 35 firms hid opt-out information from search ...
Wired

Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search

Data brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But good luck finding them. More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ ...
NPR

Far more environmental data is being deleted in Trump's second term than before

The current Trump administration has made 70% more changes to government environmental websites during its first 100 days than the first Trump administration did, and those changes are bolder, ...