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What is headless Chrome, and why would anyone want a headless browser?

Automatically scraping web pages is one of the many things you can automate with a headless Chrome. You can automate ...
Reuters

Google lawsuit says data scraping company uses fake searches to steal web content

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...
CNN

Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation

In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm. Federal immigration ...
CNET

Wikipedia Asks AI Companies to Stop Scraping Data and to Start Paying Up

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad ...
TechCrunch

Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping

Wikipedia on Monday laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic. In a blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...
The New York Times

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Stealing Its Information

In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies. By Mike Isaac Reporting from San ...
Pulitzer Center

How Non-Coding Journalists Can Build Web Scrapers With AI (Examples and Prompts Included)

Data is a crucial part of investigative journalism: It helps journalists verify hypotheses, reveal hidden insights, follow the money, scale investigations, and add credibility to stories. The Pulitzer ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
Morningstar

CREATOR MEDIA COMPANY RAPTIVE ANNOUNCES 'TERMS OF CONTENT USE' AGREEMENT TO ESTABLISH PROTECTIONS AGAINST AI SCRAPING

Raptive is protecting its 6,000+ creator network by implementing an initiative to prevent AI crawlers from scraping independent publishers' content on the open web The new "Terms of Content Use" ...
Nanowerk

Nano-selenium boosts rice yields while cutting fertilizer use and emissions

Scientists show that nanoscale selenium can reduce fertilizer use by 30%, improve rice nutrition, and lower greenhouse gases. (Nanowerk News) The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 ...