It’s perfectly understandable to primarily focus on your scrapers, bypassing anti-bot systems and avoiding IP blocks. Yet, a performance drag can just as well land you in hot waters where high latency ...

For more than two and a half decades, CAPTCHA has been the bane of every casual user minding their business on the Internet. If you’ve spent any time scraping, you know exactly the feeling of ...

Astronomers have revealed the sharpest image ever captured of a filament in the cosmic web — the enormous hidden structure connecting galaxies across the Universe. The glowing strand stretches 3 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. OpenAI wants you to know how good its latest image generator is —and it has a few fake screenshots and ...

Web data scraping has become more important as companies need fresh information for market research, competitor tracking, and business decisions. One of the most popular languages for this task is ...

After smartphones were cleared by NASA for space missions, the crew members of the Integrity spacecraft are beaming back lots of iPhone photos. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

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 ...

Using GitHub Pages and a simple PowerShell script, the author created a free, static web page to showcase years of published articles. An AI-assisted "vibe coding" approach with ChatGPT was used to ...

A British organization dedicated to stopping child sexual abuse online said Wednesday that its researchers observed dark web users sharing “criminal imagery” that the users said was created by Elon ...

AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos proliferated on social media in the hours following former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture. Several of these images quickly went viral, ...