Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing costly scraping with structured function calls.

North Korea-linked Lazarus campaign spreads malicious npm and PyPI packages via fake crypto job offers, deploying RATs and ...

Abstract: The rapid growth of web applications has made it more challenging to prevent cyber threats. Early detection of security vulnerabilities is critical for ensuring the security of these ...

Tom Fenton used AI-assisted vibe coding to create and deploy a free, cloud-hosted static web page. GitHub Pages provided a no-cost way to host static HTML content without servers, databases, or paid ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

Is the data publicly available? How good is the quality of the data? How difficult is it to access the data? Even if the first two answers are a clear yes, we still can’t celebrate, because the last ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

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 ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...