read-only

American

[reed-ohn-lee] / ˈridˈoʊn li /

adjective

Computers.

of or relating to files or memory that can be read but cannot normally be changed.

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read-only

Mac had been using Grok Bot, SpaceXAI’s “always-on agent,” giving it read-only access to his bank account.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The remaining two were only accessed in a "read-only manner" and were not used to help break into Hugging Face, OpenAI said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Tom Krause, chief executive of Cloud Software Group Inc., and Marko Elez, an engineer who has worked for Musk’s private companies, will both retain ostensibly read-only access to payment information.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025

But the catalogue will just be available in a "read-only" format.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024

Its opaque and image-heavy interfaces made it increasingly one-way and read-only, more conducive to commerce than communication.

From Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff

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