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Last November, Amazon sued Perplexity demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases for users online. Today, a judge ruled in favor of the tech giant, granting it a temporary court injunction blocking the scraping of Amazon's website. According to court filings, the judge found strong evidence the tool accessed the retailer's systems "without authorization." CNBC reports: In a ruling dated Monday, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney wrote that Amazon has provided "strong evidence" that Perplexity's Comet browser accessed its website at the user's direction, but "without authorization" from the e-commerce giant. Chesney said Amazon submitted "essentially undisputed evidence" that it spent more than $5,000 to respond to the issue, including "numerous hours" where its employees worked to develop tools to block Comet from accessing its private customer tools and to prevent the tool from "future unauthorized access." "Given such evidence, the Court finds Amazon has shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its claim," Chesney wrote. Chesney's ruling includes a weeklong stay to allow Perplexity to appeal the order. Amazon wrote in its original complaint that Perplexity's agents posed security risks to customer data because they "can act within protected computer systems, including private customer accounts requiring a password." The company also said Perplexity's agents created challenges for the company's advertising business, because when AI systems generate ad traffic, the impressions have to be detected and filtered out before advertisers can be billed. "This requires modifications to Amazon's advertising systems, including developing new detection mechanisms to identify and exclude automated traffic," Amazon wrote in its complaint. "These system adaptations are necessary to maintain contractual obligations with advertisers who pay only for legitimate human impressions."

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The Bombardier CL-600-2B16 Challenger 650 flipped during takeoff from Bangor International Airport in Maine on January and exploded in a fireball, killing all six people on board.

Noah Donohoe, 14, disappeared on June 21, 2020, after leaving his home in Belfast on his bike to meet friends in the Cavehill area of the city.

sziring shares a report from Business Insider: Silicon Valley has long competed for talent with ever-richer pay packages built around salary, bonus, and equity. Now, a fourth line item is creeping into the mix: AI inference. As generative AI tools become embedded in software development, the cost of running the underlying models -- known as inference -- is emerging as a productivity driver and a budget line that finance chiefs can't ignore. Software engineers and AI researchers inside tech companies have already been jousting for access to GPUs, with this AI compute capacity being carefully parceled out based on which projects are most important. Now, some tech job candidates have begun asking about what AI compute budget they will have access to if they decide to join. "I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex," Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead at OpenAI's Codex, the startup's AI coding service, wrote on X recently. He added that usage per user is growing much faster than overall user growth, a sign that AI compute is becoming even scarcer and more valuable. That scarcity is reshaping how engineers think about their work and pay. "The inference compute available to you is increasingly going to drive overall software productivity," said OpenAI President Greg Brockman. The report cites a recent compensation submission from a software engineer that listed "Copilot subscription" as part of the pay and benefits. "OpenAI and Anthropic should create recruitment sites where their clients can advertise roles, listing the token budget for the job alongside the salary range," said Peter Gostev, AI capability lead at Arena, a startup that measures the performance of models. Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures predicts AI inference will be the fourth component of engineering compensation, alongside salary, bonus, and equity. "Will you be paid in tokens? In 2026, you likely will start to be," Tunguz said.

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The poll of 2,000 adults under 28 found 47 per cent of young people thought training in a job such as plumbing or electrics was a quicker route to a six-figure salary than studying for a degree.

The tribute has just been unveiled at St Mary's Church in Bocking, Essex - welcomed by the band and family of Flint who died aged 49 on March 4 2019.

US B1 bombers have been spotted taking off from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire just hours after President Donald Trump vowed to inflict 'death, fire and fury' on Iran .

Could steal sensitive personal and financial data

After a whopper of a Patch Tuesday last month, with six Microsoft flaws exploited as zero-days, March didn't exactly roar in like a lion. Just two of the 83 Microsoft CVEs released on Tuesday are listed as publicly known, and none is under active exploitation, which we're sure is a welcome change to sysadmins.…

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The Type 45 destroyer put to sea this afternoon, a week after it was ordered to get ready to head to the Mediterranean.

Daniel Gee-Jamieson's mother said PC Ryan Connolly 'got away with it' after officers found extreme porn and selfies at murder scenes on his phone.

The Reform UK leader suggested - even if Britain wanted to assist in Donald Trump's attacks on Tehran - it was unable 'to offer anything of any value' to the US President.

AT&T plans to invest more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand U.S. telecom infrastructure for the AI age. The company says it will also hire thousands of technicians while partnering with AST SpaceMobile to extend coverage to remote areas. Reuters reports: Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and connected devices has prompted telecom operators to invest heavily in fiber and 5G networks as they also seek to fend off intensifying competition from cable broadband providers. AT&T, which has about 110,000 employees in the U.S., said the new hires will help build and maintain its infrastructure. The outlay includes capital expenditure and other spending, the company said. The spending will focus on expanding its fiber and wireless networks, including accelerating deployment of fiber broadband, 5G home internet and satellite connectivity to extend coverage across urban, suburban and rural areas. [...] AT&T is also working with satellite partner AST SpaceMobile to expand connectivity to remote regions where traditional network infrastructure is difficult to deploy. The company said it would continue spending on the FirstNet network built for first responders and bolster investment in network security and artificial intelligence-driven threat detection.

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A wealthy couple that are used to five-star getaways costing £21,748 admitted that they had '11 times more fun' on a budget Ayia Napa getaway which was just £223 per person.

Joani Reid, the MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven, received the gift from Earthcott Ltd on 12 February, according to her latest register of interests.

E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents

Amazon's weekly operations meeting today reportedly focused on recent service outages and on the role that code changes attributed to generative AI may have played. However, the company is downplaying the possibility of problems with AI.…

Vitoria Figueiredo Barreto, 30, had been visiting a friend and staying at her home in Southend, Essex, when she went missing on March 3.

Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now?

The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.…

These are the flowers you should stop bringing to someone's house - they're seriously out of fashion.

Meghan and Harry have announced they will be embarking on a pseudo-royal tour of Australia in mid-April. But do the Sussexes realise that they might be heading for a blunder Down Under?