For most of the web's history, scraping a defended site at scale was a craft. It meant reverse engineering obfuscated ...

A 41-day experiment reveals how JavaScript-only navigation limits AI crawler discovery and why fixing it later can be harder.

New research exposes the mechanics behind ChatGPT citations, including what gets retrieved, what gets read, and what ...

District court largely denies motion to dismiss Reddit’s DMCA anti-circumvention claims against data-scraping tool provider SerpApi and AI ...

The built-in web fetch was never the bottleneck I thought it was, until I swapped it for a free tool.

It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the ...

Track engineers carried out a safety inspection on the line 24 hours before a train derailed and injured more than 20 people.

I have came up with an alternative, that I'm going to use for my blog: Place each word in a span tag, each with a CSS class. Then insert lots of gibberish words in-between in spans with other CSS ...

Every time a page loads, a small verdict gets rendered before a single pixel appears: human or automated. The decision ...

AI companies’ penchant for scraping through large swathes of the public web in search of valuable training data has already led to lawsuits and technical fixes aimed at stopping the practice. Now, a ...

Gone are the days when you had to write code to automate your browser using tools like Playwright. Microsoft has now completely changed the game with its new tool called Scout. It is an always-on AI ...