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  • Slashdot: Wikimedia Drowning in AI Bot Traffic as Crawlers Consume 65% of Resources

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/04/2357233/wikimedia-drowning-in-ai-bot-traffic-as-crawlers-consume-65-of-resources Source: Slashdot Title: Wikimedia Drowning in AI Bot Traffic as Crawlers Consume 65% of Resources Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights an emerging issue faced by the Wikimedia Foundation, where web crawlers are significantly impacting their infrastructure by overwhelming it with automated traffic, particularly for training AI…

  • Unit 42: Evolution of Sophisticated Phishing Tactics: The QR Code Phenomenon

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/qr-code-phishing/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Evolution of Sophisticated Phishing Tactics: The QR Code Phenomenon Feedly Summary: Phishing with QR codes: New tactics described here include concealing links with redirects and using Cloudflare Turnstile to evade security crawlers. The post Evolution of Sophisticated Phishing Tactics: The QR Code Phenomenon appeared first on Unit 42.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude can now search the web

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/20/claude-can-now-search-the-web/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude can now search the web Feedly Summary: Claude can now search the web Claude 3.7 Sonnet on the paid plan now has a web search tool that can be turned on as a global setting. This was sorely needed. ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok all had this…

  • Slashdot: Open Source Devs Say AI Crawlers Dominate Traffic, Forcing Blocks On Entire Countries

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/26/016244/open-source-devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Devs Say AI Crawlers Dominate Traffic, Forcing Blocks On Entire Countries Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges faced by software developers, particularly open source maintainers, in managing aggressive AI crawler traffic that overwhelms their repositories. This scenario underscores the urgent…

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

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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…

  • Hacker News: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/ Source: Hacker News Title: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The announcement of AI Labyrinth by Cloudflare introduces an innovative approach that employs AI-generated content to thwart unauthorized AI crawlers. This method allows organizations to protect their websites while simultaneously identifying and…

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

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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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude can now search the web

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/20/claude-can-now-search-the-web/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude can now search the web Feedly Summary: Claude can now search the web Claude 3.7 Sonnet on the paid plan now has a web search tool that can be turned on as a global setting. This was sorely needed. ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok all had this…