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I run 75 scrapers in production. Three of them do any fingerprint spoofing. Maybe five use residential proxies. The rest run on plain datacenter IPs or no proxy at all, and they have been running for months. If you learned scraping from blog posts, that number probably sounds wrong to you. Every tutorial you have read starts the same way: sign up for a residential pool, install a stealth browser, randomize your fingerprint, throttle like a human. Then, on step five, you finally get to look at the actual website. That order is backwards, and it is backwards on purpose. Proxy companies write most of the scraping content on the internet. They were never going to write "you probably do not need us." The scraper with the $80 a month costume Last month my guy sent me his Greenhouse job board scraper to fix. It had everything. Puppeteer with the stealth plugin. Rotating residential proxies. Randomized mouse movements between actions. Human-like typing delays. It still kept dying. So I did the thing nobody had done: opened the page in a normal browser with devtools up. The entire job list was sitting in one XHR request to a public JSON endpoint. No auth. No cookies. A rate limit so loose I never managed to hit it. I deleted basically his entire codebase and replaced it with a fetch call. It has not broken since. He had been paying for proxies for months to hit an endpoint that does not care who you are. This was not a rare lucky case. This is most cases. The 20 minute method What I do on every new target, before writing a single line of code: Open the network tab, filter to XHR/fetch. Reload the page. Click around. Paginate. Search. Find the request that returns the actual data. It is usually JSON and usually obvious. Right click, copy as cURL. Paste it in a terminal and start deleting headers one at a time. Rerun after each delete. Whatever survives step five is your scraper. Most of the time the answer is a user agent header and nothing else. Sometimes a referer. Occasion

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

Sunbird Messaging is back on the Google Play Store, offering Android users blue bubble privileges in iMessage complete with reactions and high quality videos for $2.99 a month. Apple and Google have made cross platform messaging better in recent years with support for RCS, but Android users can still cause issues in iMessage group chats, […]

A startup has created beagles without the gene that causes runny noses and watery eyes for allergy sufferers.

A single-author repo of instruction files, not code, Ponytail passed 44,000 GitHub stars in nine days by making coding agents stop over-building. Its headline claim of 80-94% less code came from a flawed baseline; after a contributor said so, the maintainer rebuilt the benchmark as a real agentic run and published a lower figure of 54%. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across all of your linked devices. You can also choose whether […]

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. At the same time, AMD's gaming revenue fell 31 […]

DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple's App Store on Monday night. "Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us," Durov says in a post on X. "This creates a potential systemic risk for […]

Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as "not healthy," but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of […]

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The camera flash will evolve into a multicolor LED that illuminates when your phone is face down.

T-Mobile is launching a new financing option that will allow you to pay for a device, taxes, and fees over 36 months. In an update on Tuesday, T-Mobile says its new Equipment Installment Plan (EIP) Flex 36 requires no upfront payment and will come with a 0 percent APR for a limited time. Even if […]

After previewing HDR10 Plus Advanced late last year, Samsung's not-Dolby Vision 2 spec will launch globally on Amazon's Prime Video this month. The first TVs announced with support are Samsung's 2026 lineup, which will be able to make use of the extra metadata to deliver more precise HDR that is optimized for what you're watching, […]

The Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 is a dependable laptop that doesn’t cost a fortune, despite being nearly three years old. It’s cheaper than usual right now, and you have a few options in the sub-$400 range. The option with the most storage is currently on sale for $399.99 (about $100 off recent prices) at Amazon. […]

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on June 9? Host your own Side Event during “Founder Summit Week,” happening June 4-10!

Apple is working on a feature that will allow users in the European Union to copy content on their iPhone and paste it onto their Windows PC (or vice versa), as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The move comes in response to an interoperability request from Microsoft that asks Apple to open up its Universal Clipboard […]

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020.