Tag: bot activity
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Hacker News: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ Source: Hacker News Title: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges faced by software developers in managing aggressive AI crawler traffic that negatively affects open-source projects, leading to significant service instability and increased operational…
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The Register: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/cloudflare_ai_labyrinth/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Feedly Summary: Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.… AI…
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The Register: AI crawlers haven’t learned to play nice with websites
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/ai_crawlers_sourcehut/ Source: The Register Title: AI crawlers haven’t learned to play nice with websites Feedly Summary: SourceHut says it’s getting DDoSed by LLM bots SourceHut, an open source git-hosting service, says web crawlers for AI companies are slowing down services through their excessive demands for data.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Banish bots from your Waiting Room and improve wait times for real users
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/banish-bots-from-your-waiting-room-and-improve-wait-times-for-real-users/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Banish bots from your Waiting Room and improve wait times for real users Feedly Summary: Cloudflare Waiting Room is improving the user experience through the addition of Turnstile and Session Revocation, keeping wait times low and protecting against bot traffic. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…
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Hacker News: Detecting AI Agent Use and Abuse
Source URL: https://stytch.com/blog/detecting-ai-agent-use-abuse/ Source: Hacker News Title: Detecting AI Agent Use and Abuse Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolving capabilities of AI agents in web interaction, particularly how they mimic real users, which poses security risks for applications. It emphasizes the need for effective observability and detection…
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Slashdot: OpenAI’s Bot Crushes Seven-Person Company’s Website ‘Like a DDoS Attack’
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/11/0449242/openais-bot-crushes-seven-person-companys-website-like-a-ddos-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s Bot Crushes Seven-Person Company’s Website ‘Like a DDoS Attack’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident highlights serious implications for both security and compliance, showcasing how AI bots can unintentionally cause significant disruptions to online businesses through excessive data scraping. The lack of a properly…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Grinch Bots strike again: defending your holidays from cyber threats
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/grinch-bot-2024/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Grinch Bots strike again: defending your holidays from cyber threats Feedly Summary: Cloudflare observed a 4x increase in bot-related traffic on Black Friday in 2024. 29% of all traffic on our network on Black Friday was Grinch Bots wreaking holiday havoc. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:**…