Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown? Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.… Having previously devised a mechanism to make AI ...

Amazon is blocking ChatGPT's AI shopping tools. Links to Amazon pages might not appear in a ChatGPT search. Amazon doesn't want AI bots cutting into its revenue. ChatGPT's new shopping research agent ...

In recent years, the open web has felt like the Wild West. Creators have seen their work scraped, processed, and fed into large language models – mostly without their consent. It became a data ...

With web publishers in crisis, a new open standard lets them set the ground rules for AI scrapers. (Or, at least it will try.) The new Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard creates terms that ...

The July/August issue of Offshore Engineer includes an update on patrolling robots. They are increasingly being used for inspection, maintenance and repair, and they are increasingly being operated, ...

Let's be honest, we're all drama queens sometimes. Whether you're texting your bestie you're “literally dying” over the latest celebrity gossip or declaring on social media that Monday mornings are ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, according to Cloudflare. Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, ...

Provide a robots.txt to forbid crawling and block the crawlers if they do it anyway. You need some knowledge about .htaccess and mysql. You have a robots.txt or create a robots.txt in every server ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents at the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) have company logins, and will soon have access to their own email accounts. According to The Wall Street Journal, the firm’s IT ...