"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted." That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the ...

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what ...

It was an agent of chaos. An AI system’s attempt to handle a routine task backfired terribly after it inadvertently deleted the company’s entire database in just seconds. The epic blunder came to ...

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 ...

Today, you can use Google Messages for web using QR code pairing or Google Account sign-in. The original login method will soon go away. Opening messages.google.com ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

The Google Messages web app won’t allow users to pair using QR codes for much longer, according to a new warning. Users will instead have to sign in using their Google account credentials. We don’t ...

A phishing campaign is using a fake Google Account security page to deliver a web-based app capable of stealing one-time passcodes, harvesting cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and proxying attacker ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...