A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal ...

Google on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions ...

According to cybersecurity firm Koi, Urban VPN Proxy and three other popular browser extensions with 8 million+ installs can see conversations you've had with the top chatbots in 'raw form.' ...

Spring Boot is one of the most popular and accessible web development frameworks in the world. Find out what it’s about, with ...

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 ...

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...

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 ...