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  • Slashdot: Cloudflare Launches Content Signals Policy To Fight AI Crawlers and Scrapers

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/24/1953230/cloudflare-launches-content-signals-policy-to-fight-ai-crawlers-and-scrapers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cloudflare Launches Content Signals Policy To Fight AI Crawlers and Scrapers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy enhances the existing robots.txt functionality, allowing website owners to better control how their content is accessed and utilized by AI companies. This initiative is particularly…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: AI Week 2025: Recap

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-week-2025-wrapup/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: AI Week 2025: Recap Feedly Summary: How do we embrace the power of AI without losing control? That was one of our big themes for AI Week 2025. Check out all of the products, partnerships, and features we announced. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text…

  • Slashdot: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1459240/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives-cloudflare-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights ethical concerns regarding the web crawling practices of the AI startup Perplexity. By using undetected methods to bypass website restrictions on automated access, this behavior…

  • The Register: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/anubis_fighting_the_llm_hordes/ Source: The Register Title: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers Feedly Summary: Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of ‘AI’ companies Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying…

  • Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-search-and-product-discovery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery Feedly Summary: We’re thrilled to announce that Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery. We believe this recognition affirms Google’s evolving commitment to delivering…

  • Slashdot: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is grappling with ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, primarily attributed to botnets and potential Large Language Model (LLM) scrapers. Despite these challenges, their critical infrastructure…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/rate-limiting-by-ip/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules Feedly Summary: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules My blog started timing out on some requests a few days ago, and it turned out there were misbehaving crawlers that were spidering my /search/…

  • The Register: Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare_creates_ai_crawler_toll/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers Feedly Summary: The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down ai-pocalypse Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet’s gatekeeper.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a…