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The Cloudflare Blog: Building unique, per-customer defenses against advanced bot threats in the AI era

Sep 23, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/per-customer-bot-defenses/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Building unique, per-customer defenses against advanced bot threats in the AI era Feedly Summary: Today, we are announcing a new approach to catching bots: using models to provide behavioral anomaly detection unique to each bot management customer and stop sophisticated bot attacks. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

The Cloudflare Blog: Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content

Jul 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content Feedly Summary: Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf. AI…

The Cloudflare Blog: The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers

Jul 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-crawl-refer-ratio-on-radar/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers Feedly Summary: Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI…

Scott Logic: Are we sleepwalking into AI-driven societal challenges?

May 14, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/14/are-we-sleepwalking-into-ai-driven-societal-challenges.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Are we sleepwalking into AI-driven societal challenges? Feedly Summary: As the capabilities and accessibility of AI continue to advance—including more sophisticated reasoning capabilities and agentic deployment—several questions and risk areas emerge that really deserve our attention. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The article delves into the multifaceted…

Hacker News: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Mar 25, 2025

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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…

Slashdot: Cloudflare Turns AI Against Itself With Endless Maze of Irrelevant Facts

Mar 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/22/014247/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cloudflare Turns AI Against Itself With Endless Maze of Irrelevant Facts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cloudflare’s introduction of “AI Labyrinth” represents an innovative approach to combatting unauthorized AI data scraping. Instead of blocking bots, this feature diverts them with AI-generated content, reflecting a progressive shift…

The Register: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

Mar 21, 2025

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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…

The Cloudflare Blog: Upgraded Turnstile Analytics enable deeper insights, faster investigations, and improved security

Mar 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/upgraded-turnstile-analytics-enable-deeper-insights-faster-investigations/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Upgraded Turnstile Analytics enable deeper insights, faster investigations, and improved security Feedly Summary: Introducing new Turnstile Analytics: Gain insight into your visitor traffic, bot behavior patterns, traffic anomalies, and attack attributes. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth look at Cloudflare’s Turnstile Analytics,…

The Register: AI crawlers haven’t learned to play nice with websites

Mar 18, 2025

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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…

The Cloudflare Blog: Banish bots from your Waiting Room and improve wait times for real users

Mar 3, 2025

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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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