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Keizo Asami Institute, iLIKA, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil Graduate Program in Biology Applied to Health, PPGBAS, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...

Hundreds of browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have adopted a new monetization tactic: tapping into your PC’s resources to scrape the web. Although not strictly malware – and often ...

Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...

Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...

AI is not magic. The tools that generate essays or hyper-realistic videos from simple user prompts can only do so because they have been trained on massive data sets. That data, of course, needs to ...

A group known as the Independent Publisher Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping ...