As AI data scrapers sap websites’ revenues, some fight back

A swarm of AI "crawlers" is running rampant on the internet, scouring billions of websites for data to feed algorithms at ...
Global Investigative Journalism Network

Data Cleaning Tools and Techniques for Non-Coders

Understanding, organizing, and validating data directly affects the accuracy of stories. New tools make cleaning accessible ...
TheServerSide

Free KCNA Practice Tests on Exam Topics

All of these KCNA practice questions come from my Kubernetes KCNA Udemy courses and the certificationexams.pro website, two resources that have helped many students pass the KCNA exam. If you are ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping data to train AI system

Social media platform Reddit sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court today, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to train ...
Columbus Dispatch

Starbucks bringing back eggnog lattes, Red Cup Day. See 2025 holiday drinks, merch in Ohio

Starbucks is bringing back its holiday menu and the ever-popular Red Cup Day starting Nov. 6. Holiday drinks include peppermint mochas, caramel brulée and iced sugar cookie lattes, and iced ...
The Verge

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
ZDNet

AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...
CPO Magazine

Web Scraping and the Rise of Data Access Agreements: Best Practices to Regain Control of Your Data

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...
ZDNet

How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

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 ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
Ars Technica

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...