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Four in 10 sites block AI bots with robots.txt
Zyte's State of Web Access 2026 report examined robots.txt files across 11,100 top sites and found 39.9% block AI crawlers. Training-focused bots face the heaviest restrictions: GPTBot is named in disallow rules by 8.4% of sites at a 5:1 disallow-to-allow ratio, while search-linked crawlers like OAI-SearchBot see more balanced treatment at 2:1. Newspapers block AI crawlers most often, at 64%.
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SpaceX designed an orbital Vera Rubin. Radiation comes next.
SpaceX and Nvidia are adapting the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI platform, 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs, for SpaceX's planned Starmind AI satellites, targeting a first launch in Q4 2027 and larger scale in 2028. Making the system radiation-tolerant for orbit remains an open problem: NASA cites LEO dose rates of 100 to 1,000 rad(Si) per year, which the article says would require a system-level redesign of the GPUs, memory, and cooling.
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Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim
The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good thing sitting in my garden, but not while driving my car.
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The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
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OpenWhispr / openwhispr
Voice-to-text dictation app with local (Nvidia Parakeet/Whisper) and cloud models (BYOK). Privacy-first and available cross-platform.
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