Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping content on its platform, CEO Jack Conte announced on Instagram. The network-level protection applies to all posts publ…
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick and co-founder of WIRED, argues in a 2026 update of his 2008 essay "Better Than Free" that when AI makes perfect copies of creative work free and abundant, creators must s…
Patreon CEO Jack Conte expressed cautious optimism about AI's impact on creators, stating that while AI poses risks to creative work, it also offers opportunities for new forms of expression and monet…
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to deploy Crawl Control technology that blocks known AI training crawlers while allowing legitimate search bots, a move CEO Jack Conte framed as about creator consent…
Patreon announced Thursday it is working with Cloudflare to actively block AI training bots from scraping creators' content, moving beyond its previous robots.txt requests after finding that AI crawle…
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping creators' content without permission, compensation, or credit. CEO Jack Conte announced the network-level protection on al…
GamingOnLinux, a reader-funded site approaching its 17th anniversary, is urging its community for financial support to sustain operations amid rising paywalls and AI scraping. The site aims to reach $…
Wunjo Design, a browser-based vector editor with Git-style version control and integrated AI, launched on Hacker News. The tool allows teams to design vector graphics, websites, and animations collabo…
The company Theorist, which operates popular YouTube channels like The Game Theorists with a combined 45 million subscribers, is launching a paid membership platform called TheoryVerse to reduce its r…
The Winhanced application for Windows handhelds has updated its Smart Profile feature, adding support for 16 new games, including recent releases like Forza Horizon 6 and Subnautica 2, bringing the to…
The article announces that Veronica has migrated her website from WordPress to Ghost, a platform that prioritizes email newsletters and memberships, in order to better alert readers about new content.…
The author of vkc.sh has removed ActivityPub integration and disabled comments due to the difficulty of moderating interactions across multiple platforms. They plan to migrate the blog to the Eleventy…