shows signage of the Cloudflare logo during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. INA FASSBENDER/Getty Images For the first time since the web opened to the public, machines now ...

Artificial intelligence and automated bots’ online activity has outpaced humans’ for the first time in history — with more than half of all internet traffic coming from automations instead of real ...

"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted." That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the ...

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions ...

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) ...

Google posted new developer documentation for how to authenticate requests with Web Bot Auth. This is a "new cryptographic protocol that helps websites to validate that bots are authentic," Google ...

The landscape of automated data extraction has undergone a radical transformation. In previous years, simple HTTP request libraries and basic headless browsers were entirely sufficient to parse the ...

Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what ...

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A new report is shedding light on a February 2026 malign influence campaign tied to the Russian-linked “Matryoshka” bot network, highlighting how artificial intelligence is being used to scale and ...

New guidelines said Senate aides could use A.I. tools for official work, including research, drafting and editing documents, and preparing briefings and talking points for lawmakers. By Catie ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...