Major news publishers have blocked Internet Archive access due to fears AI companies will use it as a backdoor to scrape content without authorization.

Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing costly scraping with structured function calls.

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On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it. One adversarial session reportedly prompted the ...

GETHOOKD has published a new report examining the leading tools available for those interested in conducting advanced ...

Google claims SerpApi built tools specifically to bypass its new "SearchGuard" defense system. The lawsuit targets the "trafficking" of circumvention tools under the DMCA, not just scraping. Google is ...

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Zurich, Switzerland--(Newsfile Corp. - December 12, 2025) - Evomi, the Swiss-based proxy provider known for its ...

AI on the JVM accelerates: New frameworks like Embabel, Koog, Spring AI, and LangChain4j drive rapid adoption of AI-native and AI-assisted development in Java. Java 25 anchors a modern baseline: The ...

Wells Fargo has asked Trustly, a Stockholm-based data aggregator, to stop screen scraping the bank's customer data and to not use the bank's logo to do so. Wells Fargo and PNC have asked Trustly to ...

The former governor, a distant second in most polls of the New York City mayor’s race, is working harder to attract voters and remind them who he is. Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, with his predecessor ...