Interviews with 15 builders map forecasting-bot construction problems
Successful competition participants struggled to ground bots in facts, keep reasoning coherent, and judge real performance.
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Paper shows adaptive AI solvers recover after CAPTCHA changes
A YOLOv8 detector routed to an open-weight vision-language model reached 85.4% accuracy and retrains from its own labels.
Wellcome Collection search failed under a distributed crawler flood
About 10,000 one-off requests in seven minutes on July 6 bypassed address-based rate limits and broke search.
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Continuous accountability for Verified bots
Cloudflare will score Verified bots on whether they honor robots.txt and rate-limit signals over time.
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Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
Cloudflare says Yandex outages cut search crawling while malicious cloud bots mostly moved elsewhere.
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Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts
Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Russian online services and sharply cut Yandex-linked bot traffic.
Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
A fraudster was jailed 18 months and ordered to forfeit $8.1 million from AI streaming fraud.
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.
What to Do When Your Competitors Are Scraping Your Prices
An Akamai post discusses how businesses should respond when competitors scrape their prices.
Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?
Schneier cites Anthropic transcripts showing Claude failing CAPTCHA challenges, while unofficial reports claim GPT-6 Astra solved a 48-level bot-verification game.
Telegram Desktop Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Chat Messages Through Poisoned HTML Exports
Telegram Desktop XSS in bot inline keyboard buttons let attackers steal chat content from exported HTML archives; patched in 7.0.1.
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BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents
Cloudflare launched BotBase for Operators, a dashboard for bot and agent operators to manage directory submissions, track status, and declare content usage.