Cloudflare (the company who hosts this site at time of writing via its Pages product) just announced “AI Labyrinth”. If you don’t know, Cloudflare is a passthrough for a large portion of the internet. That means it can block or stop certain types of traffic it thinks is malicious. To that end, it created an opt-in feature for sites behind Cloudflare to trap AI bot scrapers targeting sites by giving the bots a ton of fake content… using generative AI. This way, the AI scraper receives a bunch of generic and real information, but the real site isn’t actually scraped. Pretty clever trick, I’d say.

Earlier this week, Google released the source code for PebbleOS - the operating system for old Pebble devices - at the request of the original founder, Eric Migicovsky. Migicovsky is now planning to build new Pebble hardware after all of these years. As a developer who dreams of revisiting old projects that no one else cares about, I can relate. You can sign up for notifications at repebble.com.