Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again plus a failed NASA Lunar mission and Amazon reorg of Wondery
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Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. In other news, the Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey. NASA said that its teams lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch several months prior; Four years after Amazon’s acquisition of podcast network Wondery, the tech giant is dismantling its $300 million purchase and reorganizing various audio properties into separate teams at the company.
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