Build

The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army

The establishment of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relied on a recruitment campaign carried out, in part, by young software engineers fanning out across online chat groups and Discord servers, according to three sources and chat logs…

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt – Ars Technica

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt  Ars Technica Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots  404 Media Developer Created Tarpit to Trap AI Training Bots  80.lv ‘Nepenthes’ is developed to trap crawlers that collect…

This Company Wants to Build a Space Station That Has Artificial Gravity

California-based Vast Space has big ambitions. The company is aiming to launch a commercial space station, the Haven-2, into low Earth orbit by 2028, which would allow astronauts to stay in space after the decommissioning of the International Space Station…