A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit ...

Data scraping, commonly referred to as “web scraping,” refers to the automated process of extracting data from websites using specialized software, bots, or web crawlers. Since the dawn of the ...

Google is testing Web Bot Auth, an experimental protocol designed to help websites verify that automated traffic is really coming from the bot or service it claims to represent. The new protocol could ...

Google posted new developer documentation for how to authenticate requests with Web Bot Auth. This is a "new cryptographic protocol that helps websites to validate that bots are authentic," Google ...

The landscape of automated data extraction has undergone a radical transformation. In previous years, simple HTTP request libraries and basic headless browsers were entirely sufficient to parse the ...

I’m using OpenClaw more and more each week, and as such, I’m fine-tuning my setup as I go. This brand new category of software is moving very quickly, which doesn’t help with achieving a sense of ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Real-time insights combined with long-term trend analytics reveal how AI bots affect revenue, search traffic, and escalate origin and infrastructure costs. Most traffic on the internet is driven by ...

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SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...