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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…

  • 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…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: HTTPS-only for Cloudflare APIs: shutting the door on cleartext traffic

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/https-only-for-cloudflare-apis-shutting-the-door-on-cleartext-traffic/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: HTTPS-only for Cloudflare APIs: shutting the door on cleartext traffic Feedly Summary: We are closing the cleartext HTTP ports entirely for Cloudflare API traffic. This prevents the risk of clients unintentionally leaking their secret API keys in cleartext during the initial request. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Slashdot: AI Crawlers Haven’t Learned To Play Nice With Websites

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/19/1027251/ai-crawlers-havent-learned-to-play-nice-with-websites?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Crawlers Haven’t Learned To Play Nice With Websites Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: SourceHut is experiencing service disruptions due to aggressive web crawling by AI companies collecting data for training large language models (LLMs). They have implemented mitigations, including blocking certain cloud providers due to…

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

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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…

  • Cloud Blog: The AI-driven telecom: How we’re powering transformation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/telecommunications/the-ai-driven-telecom-how-were-powering-transformation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The AI-driven telecom: How we’re powering transformation Feedly Summary: AI is driving unprecedented change and evolution across every industry, and the telecommunications sector is at a particularly interesting crossroads: The industry is standardizing on 5G; data is growing exponentially; and customer expectations are quickly changing. Leading communication service…

  • The Register: Microsoft Azure faceplants in Norway, taking government services with it

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/microsoft_azure_outage_norway/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft Azure faceplants in Norway, taking government services with it Feedly Summary: Locals see red as public cloud’s service health dashboard shows green Norwegians fell victim to a prolonged Microsoft Azure outage today, which impacted businesses and took down multiple government websites delivering online services to citizens.… AI…

  • The Register: US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/us_newspaper_publisher_exercises_linguistic/ Source: The Register Title: US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware Feedly Summary: Called it an ‘incident’ in SEC filing, but encrypted apps and data exfiltration suggest Lee just can’t say the R word US newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is blaming its recent service…

  • The Register: Mysterious Palo Alto firewall reboots? You’re not alone

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/palo_alto_firewall/ Source: The Register Title: Mysterious Palo Alto firewall reboots? You’re not alone Feedly Summary: Limited-edition hotfix to get wider release before end of month Administrators of Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls have complained the equipment falls over unexpectedly, and while a fix has bee prepared, it’s not yet generally available.… AI Summary and…

  • The Register: Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age – with itself in the middle

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/cloudflare_q4_2024_ai_web/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age – with itself in the middle Feedly Summary: Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements Cloudflare has declared it’s found optimizations that reduce the amount of hardware needed for inferencing workloads, and is in…