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 ...

In June, the IAB Tech Lab proposed a new initiative to create guardrails around how AI bots are permitted to access content, with an emphasis on publisher monetization. It’s hoping that its new ...

Web browsers are some of the most important pieces of software we use every day, but we take them for granted. Most users settle for whatever default ships with their devices -- and that's a mistake.

When most tech companies are challenged with a lawsuit, the expected defense is to deny wrongdoing. To give a reasonable explanation of why the business' actions were not breaking any laws. Music AI ...

Apple has introduced Apple Maps for the web, currently available in a public beta. This new feature brings the convenience and functionality of the ‌Apple Maps‌ app to web browsers, enabling users to ...

With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. In the coming weeks, ...

In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and ...

As artificial intelligence image generators become more popular and powerful, artists worry that their work will be used without permission to train tools like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

Wikipedia’s parent, the Wikimedia Foundation, has called on AI developers to access its content through the paid Wikimedia Enterprise API and to provide clear attribution, arguing that large‑scale ...

A group of artists has filed a class-action complaint against the companies behind a trio of A.I. art generators, saying the services violated copyright and unfair competition laws. On January 13, ...

Late last week, a California-based AI artist who goes by the name Lapine discovered private medical record photos taken by her doctor in 2013 referenced in the LAION-5B image set, which is a scrape of ...