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On August 4, 2026, more than 20 bypass services stopped working simultaneously in Russia. The reason is not in the protocol: IP addresses and entire subnets of hosting providers fell under the filter. We analyze how address space blocking differs from DPI, what the Ministry of Digital Development offers regarding "white lists," and why resident and mobile proxies have different blocking surfaces.

📅 August 21, 2026
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Official APIs have become significantly more expensive, some have closed to new clients, and courts have for the first time expressed opinions on access for AI agents. We compare the official API, dataset purchase, and custom parsing through proxies based on seven criteria and provide a selection matrix for five typical scenarios.

📅 August 20, 2026
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On August 4, 2026, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the ban that had prevented the Perplexity Comet agent from accessing accounts on Amazon. The court ruled that the agent is a tool, not a person, and that access under the CFAA is performed by the user. A key argument was the network architecture — from which device the request is physically sent. We analyze the decision and practical implications.

📅 August 19, 2026
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