Crawlers are endemic. Now representing half of all internet traffic, they will soon outpace human traffic. This unseen subway ...

Tarpits were originally designed to waste spammers' time and resources, but creators like Aaron have now evolved the tactic ...

Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them. Web crawlers play a central role in the race for the best AI model ...

Nepenthes is a worm that creates infinite maze-like traps to target crawlers, who scrape data to train large language models (LLMs). The author warns that Nepenthes 'actually eats everything that ...