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Slashdot: Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data?

Aug 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/1820249/are-ai-web-crawlers-destroying-websites-in-their-hunt-for-training-data Source: Slashdot Title: Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the adverse effects of AI web crawlers on website performance, highlighting the increasing web traffic attributed to these bots. It addresses the challenges website owners face…

The Cloudflare Blog: The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals

Aug 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawlers-click-ai-bots-training/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals Feedly Summary: By mid-2025, training drives nearly 80% of AI crawling, while referrals to publishers (especially from Google) are falling and crawl-to-refer ratios show AI consumes far more than it sends back. AI Summary and Description:…

The Register: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

Aug 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/ Source: The Register Title: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Feedly Summary: But the cure may ruin the web…. With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language…

Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: How CISOs and boards can help fight cyber-enabled fraud

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-how-ciso-board-can-fight-cyber-enabled-fraud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: How CISOs and boards can help fight cyber-enabled fraud Feedly Summary: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2025. Today, David Stone and Marina Kaganovich, from our Office of the CISO, talk about the serious risk of cyber-enabled fraud — and how CISOs…

The Cloudflare Blog: A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-crawler-traffic-by-purpose-and-industry/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry Feedly Summary: We are extending AI-related insights on Cloudflare Radar with new industry-focused data and a breakdown of bot traffic by purpose, such as training or user action. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

Cloud Blog: Deception in Depth: PRC-Nexus Espionage Campaign Hijacks Web Traffic to Target Diplomats

Aug 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/prc-nexus-espionage-targets-diplomats/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Deception in Depth: PRC-Nexus Espionage Campaign Hijacks Web Traffic to Target Diplomats Feedly Summary: Written by: Patrick Whitsell In March 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified a complex, multifaceted campaign attributed to the PRC-nexus threat actor UNC6384. The campaign targeted diplomats in Southeast Asia and other entities…

Slashdot: China Isolates Itself From Worldwide Web For Over an Hour

Aug 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/21/0543252/china-isolates-itself-from-worldwide-web-for-over-an-hour Source: Slashdot Title: China Isolates Itself From Worldwide Web For Over an Hour Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident involving a 74-minute shutdown of encrypted web traffic in China highlights significant security and compliance implications for international businesses relying on secure connections. This event not only affected access…

Cloud Blog: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-modernization/platform-engineering-control-mechanisms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms Feedly Summary: The promise of platform engineering is to accelerate software delivery by empowering developers with self-service capabilities. However, this must be balanced with security, compliance, and operational stability, and for this, you need robust controls. But all too…

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…

Slashdot: Increased Traffic from Web-Scraping AI Bots is Hard to Monetize

Jun 14, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/14/021246/increased-traffic-from-web-scraping-ai-bots-is-hard-to-monetize Source: Slashdot Title: Increased Traffic from Web-Scraping AI Bots is Hard to Monetize Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses the rising prevalence of AI tools like ChatGPT replacing traditional search engines, with a significant increase in traffic from retrieval bots. It highlights the challenges and opportunities for…

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