You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

For Linux developers, sysadmins, and cybersecurity enthusiasts, using a mobile residential proxy from the terminal can boost privacy, quality, and reliability when scraping mobile sites, running ...

Abstract: This paper explores the power of Beautiful Soup, a Python library, for web scraping. We delve into the advantages of web scraping for data acquisition, highlighting its limitations and ...

Hundreds of browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have adopted a new monetization tactic: tapping into your PC’s resources to scrape the web. Although not strictly malware – and often ...

Microsoft’s cloud storage, OneDrive, works both as a web app that you use through a browser and as a storage drive integrated into File Explorer in Windows 10 and 11. When you upload a file or folder ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a great way to boost the security of your accounts. But even with that added layer of security, malicious actors are finding ways to break in. So-called adversary-in ...