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Amazon has drawn a hard line against Meta's Muse AI agent, blocking it from shopping on behalf of users after Meta apparently never asked permission to access the platform. A popup now greets Muse users with a terms-of-use warning, raising real questions about how AI agents will negotiate access across the web as they become more capable and more autonomous.
On the cybercrime front, a notorious dark web group is claiming it hijacked a rival's website, a move that reads less like espionage and more like a public turf war. Security researchers are watching closely, because when criminal organizations start fighting each other in the open, the collateral damage for ordinary users and businesses tends to follow quickly.
And in a story that blends ingenuity with sustainability, a YouTuber called EastMakes has breathed new life into a fifteen-year-old HP ProLiant server by designing a custom replacement motherboard built around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module five, adding NVMe storage and USB three-point-oh in the process. It's a reminder that with enough skill, old hardware rarely has to mean dead hardware.
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