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View More Newsfrom the pulling-up-the-ladder dept Back in December we called out Google for filing a DMCA 1201 lawsuit over companies scraping Google’s results. Almost everything about the lawsuit seemed problematic, not the least of which is that Google’s entire business was built on scraping the web. To sue another company for scraping Google just felt… obnoxious. And now a judge has dismissed the lawsuit, though leaving it open for Google to refile. Some background: now that we’re in the age of AI, access to all kinds of data has become more precious, which means we’re seeing more and more attempts to…
By Friday afternoon, the mood on commodity trading desks changes.For the first four days of the week, traders have been trying to profit from their bets. By lunch on Friday, however, they’re thinking about how much risk they can tolerate until markets reopen on Sunday evening.Anything could happen while markets are closed: news of a new war, an election result, an unexpected OPEC announcement or, as seen recently, a market-moving presidential post. Forty-eight hours can be a long time when traders are holding a position tied to a few of the world’s most actively traded markets, and there’s nothing they…
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