Are routine data tasks keeping you at your desk instead of in the lab? From collecting and formatting data to analyzing and plotting results, these time-consuming processes can pull scientists away ...

European publishers are getting hit harder than North American sites by AI bot scraping – and no one really knows why. A recent report from TollBit found that European sites get scraped more by AI ...

Gone are the days when you had to write code to automate your browser using tools like Playwright. Microsoft has now completely changed the game with its new tool called Scout. It is an always-on AI ...

Some political issues don’t become mainstream talking points, but that doesn’t make them any less urgent. They’re more like “hygiene [and] vegetables,” quipped Danielle Coffey, president and CEO of ...

Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio built a web font that draws one set of words on screen and leaves a different set in the page’s source code. A person reading in a browser sees the writing as written ...

When Reddit significantly changed its user interface way back in 2018, there were widespread protests from those who preferred the original. The company has retained access to this at old.reddit.com, ...

Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a ...

A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there ...

Google has updated its list of Google user-triggered fetchers to reflect the Google Notebook name change. Users who have hardcoded the old user agent for robots.txt or for other reasons have a grace ...

Hacked files reportedly show that Suno ripped decades of audio from protected platforms. Hacked files reportedly show that Suno ripped decades of audio from protected platforms. is a news writer ...

Europe's top privacy body resolved one of the most contested legal questions in artificial intelligence on Tuesday, ruling that GDPR applies in full whenever web scraping involves EU residents' ...