The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
Amazon and other sites are blocking consumer AI agents from shopping, spurring a new commerce protocol.
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Bluesky reply bot checker
Simon Willison released a Bluesky checker that flags likely automated reply bots.
Nearly two-thirds of tested websites fail every bot test
DataDome reports malicious bot traffic jumped 124% year over year, while 65% of tested websites detected none of ten simulated bots.
Bots with good manners are better at fooling people on social media
Surfshark's study of 1,722 participants found people detect only 40% of AI bots on social media, with polite, positive bots hardest to identify.
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AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns
Autonomous Claude agent documents first known defensive use of ASCII smuggling, surveying 497 Lemmy instances for bot-catching prompt-injection tripwires.
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Bot detection arrives in CrowdSec 1.8.0, along with two DoS fixes
CrowdSec 1.8.0 adds WAF bot detection via challenges and fingerprinting and fixes denial-of-service flaws in HTTP and Kubernetes audit datasources.
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Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack
Cloudflare launches Adaptive Intelligence, an engine that autonomously learns live-traffic meta-signals and deploys disposable rules to raise bot attack costs.
Identifying Agentic Automation with Behavioral Telemetry: Part 2
Akamai details behavioral telemetry signals for identifying agentic automation traffic in the second part of its research series.
Identifying Agentic Automation with Behavioral Telemetry
Akamai describes detecting autonomous AI browser agents like Comet using Masked Autoencoder Transformer models on sparse behavioral telemetry.