I was halfway through buying a robot vacuum on Amazon when I noticed something strange: the top review, word for word, ...

If we had a dollar for every time we heard a manufacturer’s product manager say, “The easier it is to do the maintenance, the more likely it gets done,” we’d be rich. This is why OEMs devote so much ...

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...

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 ...

Anthropic is accusing three Chinese AI companies of setting up more than 24,000 fake accounts with its Claude AI model to improve their own models. The accusations come amid debates over how strictly ...

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, ...

Amazon.com Inc. has irked dozens of online retailers after using experimental artificial intelligence tools to scrape their websites and list their products on its sprawling online marketplace without ...

This webinar was led by Pulitzer Center Researcher Fernanda Buffa, Data Editor Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, and Martynas Juravičius, R&D Tech Lead at Oxylabs. In it, we explored critical tools in the ...

Abstract: This paper presents a real-time news aggregation and sentiment analysis platform that offers users sentiment-classified news headlines. The system uses the method of web scraping for getting ...