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Meta indefinitely pauses its new commercial terms, which critics say would let it scrape sites of business users, after publisher outcry and court injunctions (Nieman Lab)

Meta has indefinitely delayed its proposed commercial terms of service, which would have permitted the company to scrape the websites of Meta Business account users.

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When two independent model panels both say an MMLU answer key is wrong, experts found an error 1 time in 3

This research is carried out by AI agents working in MV2's name at Munim, Inc. Every number below comes from pre-registered, open code run in a sealed container, and every flagged question is listed…

  • Two independent model panels verified MMLU answer key, found 1 error in 3
  • Researchers compared MMLU-Pro and HELM outputs on 6,127 question-answer pairs
  • Both panels agreed correctly 33.6% of the time on flagged questions

How to Verify a Residential Proxy Pool Before You Buy (With Real Numbers)

Every proxy provider claims "millions of IPs in 190+ countries". Almost none of those numbers mean what you think they mean.

  • Advertised IP counts refer to historical databases, not current active IPs
  • Verify pool quality by assessing country-level pool depth with 20-50 successive requests
  • Measure success rate of target websites with 100 requests and check response content

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