Over the past weeks I’ve been monitoring traffic from AI crawlers like OpenAI’s GPTBot, oai-searchbot and ClaudeBot. The data (see screenshots below) raises some interesting questions: Questions I Wanted to Answer Why does GPTBot visit robots.txt so many times, sometimes multiple times per day? Why does GPTBot prefer robots.txt over sitemap.xml? Why do I see…
How Actors Work An actor processes one request at a time in a serialized manner. When you call an actor’s method from outside its isolation context, you must use await, which creates a suspension point where your code waits for its turn to execute. actor DownloadManager { private var activeDownloads: [URL: Progress] = [:] private…
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, August 23 (game…
Setting up API keys in your Python Program Table of Contents The Great Saturday Night Sacrifice Why Your Colab Skills Don’t Translate to Local Development (And Why That’s Normal) Getting Your Gemini API Key (The Treasure Hunt Begins) Setting Up Your Local Environment (Like Moving from a Hotel to Your Own Apartment) The Magic of…
Adam Savage and the Tested crew got a hands-on look at TOMY’s awesome new Star Trek model: a 1:350 scale die-cast Klingon D7 Battlecruiser from the original series. A rep from TOMY was on hand to detail its features and compare it directly to the original prop used for filming. As a bonus, they also…
On this episode of the Trap Draw podcast, the crew is hyped for the home stretch of the MLB season, especially with the Milwaukee Brewers sporting the best record in baseball. They kick things off with a deep dive into the NL Central race before expanding to cover all the other divisions as teams fight…
Welcome to TechRadar’s live coverage of matchday two of the Premier League with Bournemouth vs Wolves, Brentford vs Aston Villa, and Burnley vs Sunderland the trio of 3pm BST (10am ET) kickoffs for us to get stuck into. The games aren’t being live streamed in the UK, but football fans living outside of Blighty will…
BenQ PV3200U is a 32-inch 4K monitor with calibrated color display for content creators It has an integrated 2.1 audio system with woofer but headphones may still be required A wireless Hotkey Puck lets users make quicker adjustments during editing BenQ has taken the wraps off its new 32-inch 4K monitor designed primarily for video…
Let me start off with an apology: I’m sorry I’m writing this article now, as we’re probably only three weeks away from the launch of the next-generation iPhones, which we and many others in the tech world have dubbed the iPhone 17. That means you should almost certainly wait for the reveal of the new…
