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 ...

Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a ...

Suno — an app that vomits out soulless audio in the form of AI-generated "music" — has been hacked. According to 404 Media, the hacker accessed data related to Suno's training practices, as well as ...

Most browser automation runs from the outside. Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and browser-use all drive a browser from an external process. They read the page through screenshots or the Chrome ...

The alleged campaign generated 28.8 million queries in a large-scale model-extraction effort to replicate AI capabilities. Anthropic has accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to ...

In Ayurveda, tongue scraping is a cornerstone of ‘dinacharya,’ or your daily routine. According to Dr. Varalakshmi Yanamandra, an Ayurvedic doctor and gut expert, “The tongue provides a daily status ...

Should researchers still be posting their data openly online? It’s a question being debated by some researchers now that bots are routinely mining open-access databases and scientific publications to ...

Imagine needing to check the price of a pair of shoes every five minutes. A store manager would quickly get suspicious and might even ban you. Web scraping is how you hire thousands of different ...

Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A trio of YouTube producers filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon alleging the tech giant illegally used content from ...