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We all dodged a bullet

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

We All Dodged a Bullet

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

Sometimes CPU cores are odd

One of the biggest lessons that I've learned in my career is that all software has bugs, and the more complicated your software gets the more complicated your bugs get. A lot of the time those bugs will be fairly obvious and easy to spot, validate, and replicate. Sometimes, the process of fixing it will uncover your core assumptions about how things work in ways that will leave you feeling like you just got trolled. Today I'm going to talk about a single line fix that prevents people on a large

Sometimes CPU cores are odd – Anubis

One of the biggest lessons that I've learned in my career is that all software has bugs, and the more complicated your software gets the more complicated your bugs get. A lot of the time those bugs will be fairly obvious and easy to spot, validate, and replicate. Sometimes, the process of fixing it will uncover your core assumptions about how things work in ways that will leave you feeling like you just got trolled. Today I'm going to talk about a single line fix that prevents people on a large

Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

Who does your assistant serve?

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

Fed up with AI scraping your content? This open-source bot blocker can help - here's how

Anubis / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Anyone who runs a website knows how annoying AI bots are these days. F5, the application delivery network company, found that more than half of all web visits come not from people but from data scrapers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Perplexity AI bots. Also: AI bots scraping your data? This free tool gives those pesky crawlers the run-around (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging

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This open-source bot blocker shields your site from pesky AI scrapers - here's how

Anubis / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Anyone who runs a website knows how annoying AI bots are these days. Also: AI bots scraping your data? This free tool gives those pesky crawlers the run-around F5, the application delivery network company, found that more than half of all web visits come not from people but from data scrapers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Perplexity AI bots. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging

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New Anubis ransomware can encrypt and destroy data, making file recovery impossible

WTF?! Being affected by a dangerous ransomware operation is bad enough, but at least you might have a chance to recover your files somehow. A recently discovered ransomware strain is making things even trickier by offering a new wiping option that allows affiliate criminals to completely destroy data after encryption. Security researchers have discovered a new Ransomware-as-a-Service campaign with highly destructive potential. Anubis has only been around for a few months and fortunately, hasn't

Anubis ransomware adds wiper to destroy files beyond recovery

The Anubis ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has added to its file-encryptimg malware a wiper module that destroys targeted files, making recovery impossible even if the ransom is paid. Anubis (not to be confused with the same-name Android malware with a ransomware module) is a relatively new RaaS first observed in December 2024 but became more active at the beginning of the year. On February 23, the operators announced an affiliate program on the RAMP forum. A report from KELA at the