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Not paywalled? What's the big "Buy access" banner over the top for? Or did you access some site other than forbes.com?

"Big" is relative. The local IHeart station wouldn't include their closure notice for "just" a few stores. A hundred? Five hundred? A thousand? Yeah. Sixteen is just a local retailer.

As I've been searching lately, AI has been cutting in to my searches. When a search engine decides to throw AI at what I've asked for it, I search on a different search engine; I'm looking for matching WEB PAGES, not some computer's interpretation of what I've asked for.

I'm old-fashioned. I search for content, not computer guesses at content that might contain what I asked for. Today, I looked for information on a store chain having financial issues. Google decided I was looking for "closest to Chicago", for the Los Angeles-based chain. duckduckgo at least didn't prioritize Chicago store locations over the recently-reported corporate problems.

That sort of thing will cut my searches by at least 25% going forward, as they increase the bad data. I'm getting too old to deal with the [censored] "help".

https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

Large box comes up saying, "Welcome to CNBC. Please support our journalism by allowing ads." Seems to be a paywall to me.

Unless you've already enabled ads on their site. Cannot say what the original poster has done.

And yet, the CNBC article is paywalled TOO. So, yeah...

If that's true, it should say who said it.

Given the compensation was mostly a single dollar from most, someone thought the offense was rather low, but we don't know that, either.

Google dropped Win7 from receiving updates to Chrome. So, I guess that makes this a win-win situation?

I rarely use Bing to search because the results have been so poor. Now, I know why... It has been "helping" by applying "AI" to answer queries where I only wanted sites that matched the search terms. "This is what you REALLY searched for!"

Have to guess that's why Google results have deteriorated so far recently, as they bring their AI-ASSisted search online.

So, current AI won't stop it?

Forbes had this on Christmas. IHeart Media had it "just" two days later, quoting Forbes. And NBC found out about it today?

Will it be on ABC tomorrow?

Curious as to how "most companies" are figured. "Most companies" have nothing to do with computers, other than using them to process billing and such, so it would be obvious that "most companies" do not know "AI".

Does this person think that "most companies" should know something they don't spend any time using? Or does he just not know many companies, other than his selected few?

... They'll get a discount? No? Then they're just saying "We want it more expensive, period."

One question is, "Why did you give the place that data to begin with?"

Another is, "Now that someone has stolen that data, how is paying a ransom going to do anything to fix that?"

The data was stolen. Even if a ransom is paid, it was still stolen, AND AVAILABLE TO A CRIMINAL. I wouldn't accept the word of some thief to not use it or sell it to someone else anyway.