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Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new threat actor in the constantly evolving cybersecurity space. The hacker group, dubbed GhostRedirector, has been attacking Windows servers using novel ...

The Androidify app lets you customize your own Android bot. You can use a photo or enter a text prompt. There's an app and a browser version of the tool. If you're an ...

After letting I/O 2025 attendees experience it earlier this year, Google is releasing a new AI-powered Androidify app and website. This joins the Android 16 QPR1 launch and September 2025 Pixel Drop.

There are numerous reports that Google may be using a more generic and undocumented Googlebot, Google crawler. The crawler user agent is just named "Google," and it is not listed in any of the ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For the first time ever, AI models achieved prestigious gold-level ...

After Cloudflare started testing new features that would allow websites to block AI crawlers or require payment for scraping, the tech company immediately faced questions over the logistics of the ...

From keyword-infested product pages that are impossible to parse to scalpers using bots to snatch up coveted limited-edition releases like the Nintendo Switch 2 or the latest Labubu drop, online ...

For various technical reasons, the law offers no meaningful remedy. There are a small number of vendors willing to sell companies software to halt the forbidden traffic — which itself is potentially ...

The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer has covered children’s privacy ...

Anthropic has introduced Research and Google Workspace integration to its AI model Claude, and is also nearing the launch of a new voice assistant product for the AI chatbot. The company said Claude ...