As one of the most popular, versatile, and beginner-friendly programming languages, Python can be used for a variety of tasks from analyzing data to building websites. This workshop explores how to ...

Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

A federal judge has largely sided against Meta Platforms in its battle with the Israeli analytics company Bright Data over data posted by Facebook and Instagram users and designated by them as public.

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

On January 23, 2024, the court in Meta Platforms Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., Case No. 3:23-cv-00077-EMC (N.D. Cal.), issued a summary judgment ruling with potentially wide-ranging ramifications for the ...

Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations, which had seen them gathering data from Facebook and Instagram users for ...

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Meta has been using a pair of "new" custom web crawlers to scrape AI model training data from across the internet. Though the company hasn't gone out of its way to disclose its use of the crawlers to ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

To get ahead in the AI race, you need several things: compute power, a search engine that gives real-time, referenced and context-based knowledge, and an "answer engine", sort of like the Big Brother ...