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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-17 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: openai, microsoft, new york times

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Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | by Pierluigi Paganini | get tournament chess set with silicone board and weighted pieces → | tags: chess.com, data scraping, data leak

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In the Wild West of AI, Everybody Is Accusing Everybody Else of Theft (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-13 | get The Alignment Problem Brian Christian book → | tags: data scraping, copyright, intellectual property theft

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Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | tags: anubis, proof-of-work, hashcash

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google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-12 | tags: google search, web scraping, google.com/goto

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Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-12 | tags: google search, web scraping, serp

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OpenAI's Rogue Agents Used At Least 10 More Sites For Unauthorized Communications (slashdot.org)

2026-09-09 | tags: openai, ai agents, reuters

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It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-06 | get Programming WebAssembly with Rust book → | tags: anubis, webassembly, proof-of-work

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He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them (wired.com)

2026-08-28 | by Miles Klee | get Wacom Intuos Pro drawing tablet → | tags: cara, jingna zhang, ai art scraping

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X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-26 | by Richard Speed | get VPN router privacy → | tags: x corp, nitter, xcancel

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Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: argentic, lightning, scraping

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Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: blog, changes, old reddit

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Amazon’s fight against data-scraping bots is hiding reviews from real users (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: amazon, data scraping, ai crawlers

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-17 | by Sarah Perez | tags: patreon, cloudflare, ai scraping

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Reddit Will Require You To Log In To Use Old Reddit (slashdot.org)

2026-07-01 | get Reddit Old Reddit Login Guide → | tags: reddit, old.reddit.com, api

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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-30 | get Reddit Premium Membership → | tags: reddit, old.reddit.com, api

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Cate Blanchett Launches ‘Human Consent Registry’ to Help Protect Your Likeness From AI Industry Scraping (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-23 | get AI Likeness Protection Software → | tags: cate blanchett, human consent registry, ai industry

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Bots are scraping open data — how should researchers respond? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-08 | by Stokel-Walker | get Data Privacy and Security Toolkit → | tags: access, open, open access

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Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-01 | by Ivan Mehta | get Strava Premium Membership → | tags: strava, robots.txt, api

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Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access (theverge.com)

2026-06-01 | by Emma Roth | get Strava API Access Tool → | tags: strava, api, zero-code ai

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What are AI tarpits? Understanding the tools people are using to poison LLMs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-16 | get AI Safety and Security Book → | tags: llms, ai tarpits, data scraping

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AI scraping has become its own media business (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-14 | get AI Content Scraper Tool → | tags: ai scraping, data middlemen, media companies

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The 7 Core Principles That Forged Our Company’s Path to Becoming a Market Leader (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-26 | by Julius Černiauskas | get Business Leadership Book → | tags: oxylabs, web data scraping, ai washing

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Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | get TypeScript Web Scraper Kit → | tags: lightfeed, playwright, llm

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EFF Tells Publishers: Blocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase The Historical Record (slashdot.org)

2026-03-21 | by Posted | get Internet Archive Subscription → | tags: internet archive, the new york times, ai scraping

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Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | get Web scraper → | tags: code, declarative, declarative modular

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AT&T and Verizon are fighting back against T-Mobile’s easy switch tool (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-03 | get Network Switch Tool → | tags: account, customer, life

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If AI won’t follow the rules, should the media even try? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-11-13 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: ai obviously, ai scraping, ai search

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Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jay Peters | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: content, data, perplexity

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LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: data, fake, linkedin