Cloudflare's latest AI rankings expose the web's biggest free rider

Anthropic's web scraping practices spotlight ethical AI dilemmas, with a high crawl-to-refer ratio undermining the digital ...
The Guardian Nigeria

How to Use Proxies in Python Requests for Scraping (2026 Guide)

Web scraping used to be simple. A few lines of Python, a requests.get() call, and the data you needed landed in your terminal. In 2026, that approach gets you blocked ...
Jurist

Amnesty International raises concerns about use of unlawful data collection systems to train generative AI

Amnesty International reported on Thursday that tech companies have used unlawful web scraping to collect large volumes of online data for the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Wired

AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...
Virtualization Review

How to Create a Free Web Page Using GitHub Pages

Tom Fenton used AI-assisted vibe coding to create and deploy a free, cloud-hosted static web page. GitHub Pages provided a no-cost way to host static HTML content without servers, databases, or paid ...
Reuters

Google lawsuit says data scraping company uses fake searches to steal web content

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...
Vogue

What Is Selenium And How Can You Tell If You’re Deficient?

“Selenium is an essential mineral that helps to support your metabolism, immune system, and cardiovascular health,” says Nasser. “Although needed in small amounts, it’s essential for your overall well ...
CNN

Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation

In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm. Federal immigration ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Reddit Sues Perplexity, Others Over Alleged Data Scraping

Reddit Inc. sued Perplexity AI Inc. and three other companies over alleged data scraping from the discussion site without permission, a sign of the growing demand and value of original data in the ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...