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Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its platform, citing safety concerns. The move raises a broader question about who gets access to the commercial web when the shopper isn't human. As AI agents increasingly act on our behalf, retailers are quietly drawing new lines around automated access.
Cloudflare has pulled off another impressive feat of infrastructure engineering, saving one hundred terabytes of RAM by cutting its server hash entries by ninety percent — from one hundred thousand entries down to ten thousand. The trick was tuning the algorithm that maps web addresses to cached content, eliminating enormous bloat without sacrificing performance. It's a reminder that elegant math can do what expensive hardware sometimes cannot.
And on a quieter note, the internet lost one of its more genuine voices. Cat Frazier, creator of retro GIFs that captured the playful, strange spirit of the early web, died at thirty-five. Her work was a love letter to a weirder, more handcrafted internet — the kind that felt made by people, not optimized for engagement. She'll be missed by anyone who remembers when the web had personality.
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