‘Manners for machines’: how new rules could stop AI scrapers destroying the internet

Kylie sits on the Board of the Australian Digital Alliance and on the Australian Government Copyright and AI Reference Group ...

Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens

The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular "LiteLLM" Python package ...
The Guardian

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have ...
techannouncer

Discover the Best Python Book PDF for Your Learning Journey

So, you’re looking to learn Python, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and for good reason. It’s used for all sorts of things, from making websites to crunching numbers. Finding the right book can ...
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 ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...
Ars Technica

Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, ...
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 ...
Search Engine Land

Google sues SerpApi over scraping and reselling Search data

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: ...
unite

Using AI-Powered Scraping to Democratize Access to Public Web Data

AI tools are already a mainstay amongst public web data scraping professionals, saving them time and resources while enhancing performance. Now, a new iteration of AI-powered web scrapers is enabling ...