It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the ...

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, ...

July 31 (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge on Friday rejected most of Perplexity AI's bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Reddit (RDDT.N), opens new tab accusing it of violating U.S. copyright law ...

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 ...

In the final weeks before Romania’s presidential vote in November 2024, TikTok accounts that had previously spent years posting about manicures or fashion suddenly started promoting a little-known ...

On 7 July 2026, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted Guidelines 03/2026 on web scraping in the context of generative AI (version 1.0) (“Guidelines”), now open for public consultation.

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 ...

The AI music generator Suno was hacked, according to a report from 404 Media. The hacker told the publication that they used a supply chain attack in November to access an employee’s credentials, ...

Marilee and David Kiliti spent decades raising hogs on their 89-acre Pennsylvania farm, but they were barely scraping by. When land developers showed up two years ago offering them $22 million for ...

Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising $130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped ...

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' ...

Should researchers still be posting their data openly online? It’s a question being debated by some researchers now that bots are routinely mining open-access databases and scientific publications to ...