Premier League football clubs are stepping up action against ticket touting, cancelling hundreds of thousands of fake accounts and banning fans found to be involved in resale scams. The BBC reports ...

Cloudflare, which services about 20% of websites, announced Tuesday that it is now blocking web-scraping AI bots from accessing those sites by default. Unless a website explicitly turns off the ...

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Cloudflare announced that they delisted Perplexity’s crawler as a verified bot and are now actively blocking Perplexity and all of its stealth bots from crawling websites. Cloudflare acted in response ...

It should come as no surprise that other businesses besides publishing are beset by AI bots scraping their sites. But media organizations are most likely to block the offenders, judging by a study ...

Technological advancements like digital automation and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing our lives and providing convenience, but they are also introducing new challenges. One of the darker ...

Congressman Paul D. Tonko (NY-20), and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), today reintroduced their Stopping Grinch Bots Act, legislation which cracks down on cyber Grinches using bot technology ...