Emma Roth

A little over a week after the CrowdStrike outage brought down mobile orders at Starbucks, the app had some trouble again today.

For most of the morning, around the globe weren’t been able to place orders, with the app saying, “We’re having trouble with store locations right now.” It looks like the feature is back online now though, so we won’t have to wait in line for our drinks.

Update, July 30th: Noted that mobile ordering works again.

A new option spotted in the Chrome 128 beta lets you search with Google Lens by clicking and dragging a box around the area of a website you want more information about. Google will then pull up search results based on the image or text you’ve highlighted — sort of like Circle to Search.

The text-to-image generator, which is trained on Getty’s stock pictures, now uses an upgraded version of Nvidia’s Edify AI model, making it faster and more accurate. It also comes with new features to control the “camera settings” used in an AI-generated image, such as depth of field or focal length.

A report from 404 Media reveals how AI companies like Anthropic are bypassing a website’s robots.txt file by deploying new web crawlers with different names. This makes it more difficult for websites to block crawlers, as they constantly need to update their files to include the new bots:

Anthropic’s current and active crawler is called “CLAUDEBOT.” Neither Reuters nor Condé Nast, for example, blocks CLAUDEBOT. This means that these websites—and hundreds of others who have copy pasted old blocker lists—are not actually blocking Anthropic.  

Starting today, you’ll no longer be able to purchase games, DLC, and other items from the Xbox 360 Store or the Xbox 360 Marketplace — both of which launched almost 19 years ago.

The shutdown doesn’t affect online multiplayer on the Xbox 360, and you’ll still be able to purchase backward-compatible games and DLC from newer Xbox consoles.