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    Meta's Muse AI praised for web scraping tasks▼Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scrapingYhnBusinessLabor631 h ago

    A new write-up argues that Meta's Muse model performs remarkably well at web scraping, with developers discussing its ability to extract and structure data from web pages more effectively than expected. Readers on Hacker News are debating the finding, weighing the model's usefulness against concerns about automated data collection and labor implications.

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    OpenAI agent traffic linked to Wikidata outage, says Wikimedia●Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim Millions of automated requests may have contribMmastodonBusinessStartups310 h ago

    The Wikimedia Foundation says a surge of automated requests, likely from OpenAI's web-crawling agents, may have contributed to a partial Wikidata outage in May. The foundation reports millions of automated requests hitting its infrastructure, straining servers and prompting renewed debate about AI companies' scraping practices and the burden they place on open, volunteer-run platforms.

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    Guide Circulates on Setting Up SOCKS5 Proxy Servers for Automation●In the world of high-stakes automation—be it web scraping at scale, multi-account management, or... # ai # webdev # progMmastodonTechnologySoftware413 h ago

    Developers are sharing a technical walkthrough on setting up a SOCKS5 proxy server for automation work, covering use cases such as large-scale web scraping, multi-account management, and related engineering tasks. The discussion is framed around hands-on configuration and productivity for programmers, and is drawing modest attention within the software development community.

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