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Tag: Malicious Bots

  • The Cloudflare Blog: The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/signed-agents/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic Feedly Summary: Cloudflare now lets websites and bot creators use Web Bot Auth to segment agents from verified bots, making it easier for customers to allow or disallow the many types of user and partner directed AI Summary and…

  • The Register: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/perplexity_vexed_by_cloudflares_claims/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad Feedly Summary: AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network…

  • 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…

  • Hacker News: Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

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    Source URL: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html Source: Hacker News Title: Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reflects a sysadmin’s frustration with the disruptive impact of LLM crawlers on operational stability. It discusses ongoing battles against the misuse of computing resources by malicious bots, underscoring…