The snowballing ability of artificial intelligence to trawl open data sets has some scientists worried about losing control ...

Writing a scraper or two for a story is (usually) a fairly straightforward task for a data journalist who knows a bit of code ...

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 ...

Google is testing Web Bot Auth, an experimental protocol designed to help websites verify that automated traffic is really coming from the bot or service it claims to represent. The new protocol could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to ...

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 ...

I’m using OpenClaw more and more each week, and as such, I’m fine-tuning my setup as I go. This brand new category of software is moving very quickly, which doesn’t help with achieving a sense of ...

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 ...

LLMs and AI Agents are reshaping how the web operates and how consumers interact with it. As AI-powered shopping assistants increasingly drive purchase decisions, retail sites are now serving a dual ...