New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free

New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free

According to Dark Visitors founder Gavin King, most of the major AI agents still abide by robots.txt. “That’s been pretty consistent,” he says. But not all website owners have the time or knowledge to constantly update their robots.txt files. And even when they do, some bots will skirt the file’s directives: “They try to disguise … Read more

One Man’s Army of Streaming Bots Reveals a Whole Industry’s Problem

One Man’s Army of Streaming Bots Reveals a Whole Industry’s Problem

A man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish kroner ($290,000) in royalties. The unusual case reveals a weak spot in the business model behind the world’s biggest music platforms. The 53-year-old consultant, who had pleaded not … Read more