Check Point Research shows browsing-enabled AI chat can act as a malware relay, moving commands and data through normal-looking traffic. Microsoft urges defense-in-depth, while defenders may need ...

Abstract: Nowadays, Web bots are used extensively for tasks like search engine indexing and security assessments, but they can also facilitate malicious activities such as ad fraud and data theft and ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot. Civil society and nonprofit organizations became the most-attacked sector for the first time. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company’s efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results. The action comes after the company announced a Content ...

Pewdiepie continues his deep dive into the world of open-source tech with his custom build AI chat bot that uses a council of AI bots to give him answers. PewDiePie has unveiled a custom, self-hosted ...

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader ...

The bots that quietly map the internet—the unseen engines behind search—are starting to shift the balance of power online. For decades, Google’s web crawler set the pace for how information was ...

Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE:NET) said Tuesday it is partnering with Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), Mastercard Inc. (NYSE:MA), and American Express Co. (NYSE:AXP) to build a security layer for agentic commerce, an ...

The inquisitive minds at Aperture examine the eerie ideas behind the Dead Internet Theory. Wine, water and no chairs: Inside Trump’s private reception with CEOs in Davos What Project 2025 says about ...