When I started transcribing AppStories and MacStories Unwind three years ago, I had wanted to do so for years, but the tools ...

ICE recently purchased two programs called Tangles and Webloc, which are used to track the cell phone activity of entire ...

The move targets harnesses—software wrappers that pilot a user’s web-based Claude account via OAuth to drive automated ...

If I were to locate the moment AI slop broke through into popular consciousness, I’d pick the video of rabbits bouncing on a ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity and data scrapers, accusing them of illegally stealing its data. In the lawsuit, Reddit detailed a trap that it says Perplexity fell straight into. It was the digital ...

Social media platform Reddit sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court today, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to train ...

AI-assisted web scraping is the use of traditional scraping methods alongside machine learning models to detect patterns, extract data and handle dynamic pages with less manual rule-writing. According ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Reports reveal that OpenAI uses Google Search data to answer some of users' questions. The topics that use Google Search data mostly surround news, sports, and financial markets. OpenAI retrieves the ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA’s ...