You might not think of a CAPTCHA check as a cybercrime lure, but if you fall prey to one, you may become infected with malware. Learn how to spot them with our guide.

Google added a new crawler, robot, to its list of user-triggered fetchers in the Google crawlers documentation. This specific bot is named Google Messages and it is a fetcher "used to generate link ...

Elon Musk's xAI faced backlash for recent Grok chatbot posts of artificial intelligence-generated sexualized images of children on X. The company responded to a request for comment with an autoreply: ...

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 ...

Googlebot fraud happens when malicious bots pose as one of Google’s crawlers to sneak past your security rules, allowing them broader crawling and scraping access than typical traffic. From there, ...

After the whole “BG3 players exploit children” thing, it seems Google got the message. Its bot is still spitting nonsense like “Prebuilts beat DIY builds” and it’s linking to unrelated stories instead ...

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 ...

Google LLC convinced the Federal Circuit to ax a claim from a Nobots LLC patent describing ways to determine if bots, as opposed to humans, are trying to access websites. The court accepted Google’s ...

“The CAFC…found that the Board’s claim construction was erroneous because it flouted the rule that claims should be given ‘their ordinary meaning in the context of the claim and the whole patent ...

Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs. In the past, ...

Over the past year, scammers have ramped up a new way to infect the computers of unsuspecting people. The increasingly common method, which many potential targets have yet to learn of, is quick, ...