Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” by default according to an announcement on Tuesday.

Internet traffic is up, and so are bots — they make up 56.5% of that traffic. But not everyone wants all the bots to see what ...

Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.

Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.… The network-taming company built the tool after noticing that almost one percent of all requests to access web content that ...

Fastly, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today released its latest Threat Insights Report, ...

The findings, detailed in Fastly’s Q3 Threat Insights Report, found that while humans still account for the majority of web ...

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company’s efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly suggests AI crawlers made up almost 80% of all AI bot traffic in recent months – with crawlers from Meta making up more than half of total traffic ...

ZDNET's key takeaways The internet is bigger and more fragile than ever, thanks to larger attacks. Much of that growth is ...

Software developer Xe Iaso has had enough of playing digital whack-a-mole with Amazon’s AI scrapers. The outfit’s self-hosted Git repository was repeatedly hammered into oblivion by what amounted to a ...

3D render of a webcrawling cyber-spider. Some of us still remember the "dotcom" boom from 1999-2001 and the "Cambrian explosion" of websites catering to the masses as well as to the long tail of ...

Despite selling fewer handsets than Android, Apple's profits make it the undisputed king of the mobile phone market. Now, Apple could be set to attack Google's main source of profit as the company ...