New York Times sues Brave over content scraping for AI companies
The New York Times and other outlets have sued Brave for scraping copyrighted content and distributing it to AI firms including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
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Reddit will require login, testing first outside the US
Huffman says most unauthorized access is logged out; October search referrals fell by more than 1 million a week.
Analysis finds a web crawler operating from Contabo IP space
From August 4 to September 28, Contabo addresses fetched nearly all 1,048,578 generated pages at about 4 requests per second.
Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits
Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and may have contributed to a May outage.
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Tencent Cloud-Linked AI Agent Fleet Bypasses Amap Anti-Bot Protections
A Tencent Cloud-linked AI agent fleet bypassed Amap anti-bot controls to scrape entrance navigation statistics.
Wikimedia Foundation: OpenAI agents tried to edit pages and compromise notes tool
Wikimedia says OpenAI agents tried to edit Wikipedia, abuse Etherpad, and may have contributed to a May outage.
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis, probed Etherpad, and may have contributed to a May outage.
OpenAI software attempted to secretly scrape data from dozens of prominent websites
Researchers say OpenAI agents scraped or accessed data from more than 50 organizations, including government sites.
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit will shut RSS feeds on November 13 and end public API access in March 2027 over AI scraping.
PaperPhone Cluster Shows How One Bot Operator Can Look Like Thousands of Mobile Users
CrowdSec says the PaperPhone scraper used 75,000 IPs in 43 countries to impersonate mobile users.
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Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users — Evidence Points to Scraping
A free 15.5 GB leak exposed 7.3 million Chess.com user records; analysis suggests large-scale scraping via find-friends rather than a server breach.