The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

Front-end application development startup Vercel Inc. is transforming itself into a tool that anyone can use to create an app or website that’s ready for immediate deployment using nothing but natural ...

It's AI versus the internet as Cloudflare and Perplexity have a public falling out over the 'stealth crawling' of restricted websites. The disagreement has spiralled to name calling, even, as ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites. Search engine provider Perplexity AI is accused ...

The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website. PyPI is a ...

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OpenAI is working on a web browser. Wasn't that the big thing in the 1990s? Why would Sam Altman and Co. be interested? It might not seem like it at first, but a web browser makes sense. OpenAI kicked ...

Hundreds of browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have adopted a new monetization tactic: tapping into your PC’s resources to scrape the web. Although not strictly malware – and often ...

However, actions have a habit of inspiring reactions. Lawsuits are mounting as more media companies take on the AI giants over copyright, which may yet prove decisive—recent rulings notwithstanding.

Anyone who runs a website knows how annoying AI bots are these days. F5, the application delivery network company, found that more than half of all web visits come not from people but from data ...

Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...