The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font

AI companies’ penchant for scraping through large swathes of the public web in search of valuable training data has already led to lawsuits and technical fixes aimed at stopping the practice. Now, a ...
TWCN Tech News

Headless Web Scraping with Microsoft Scout and Playwright

Gone are the days when you had to write code to automate your browser using tools like Playwright. Microsoft has now completely changed the game with its new tool called Scout. It is an always-on AI ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard

ProxyTool Launches as a Modern Cross Platform Proxy Client, Bringing Per App Routing and Centralised Proxy Management to Teams and Power Users

Berlin, Germany– (Newsfile Corp. – August 7, 2026) – ProxyTool has officially launched as a modern proxy client and centralised proxy management platform. The Windows version is available now, with ...
HackerNoon

Best Proxy for Web Scraping: Top Providers Ranked

Compare the best proxy for web scraping in 2026. We ranked 10 top proxy providers on IP pool size, pricing, success rates, ...
The Next Web

Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.

Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a ...
Ars Technica

“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,” web scraper says after court win

After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Lawsuit Against SerpApi Over Scraping Search Results Dismissed

Last December, Google sued SerpApi over scraping its search results, and now a court has granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss the case. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed these claims ...
techtimes

GDPR Applies to AI Training Data: EU Ends Web Scraping Free Pass for Every Lab

Europe's top privacy body resolved one of the most contested legal questions in artificial intelligence on Tuesday, ruling that GDPR applies in full whenever web scraping involves EU residents' ...
Vogue

I Tried Tongue Scraping for 30 Days—Here’s What It Did for My Gut Health

In Ayurveda, tongue scraping is a cornerstone of ‘dinacharya,’ or your daily routine. According to Dr. Varalakshmi Yanamandra, an Ayurvedic doctor and gut expert, “The tongue provides a daily status ...
The New York Times

U.S. Bars Foreigners From Using Anthropic’s Most Advanced A.I. Models

The company said on Friday night that the federal government had ordered limits on its Mythos and Fable 5 A.I. systems, citing national security concerns. By Cade Metz and Dustin Volz Cade Metz ...
Jurist

Amnesty International raises concerns about use of unlawful data collection systems to train generative AI

Amnesty International reported on Thursday that tech companies have used unlawful web scraping to collect large volumes of online data for the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...