An Entrepreneur contributor writing about ecommerce optimization warns that many online store pages render prices, inventory and specs using JavaScript, which most AI crawlers cannot execute. As a result, pages that rank well on Google may return blank or incomplete data to AI shopping assistants like ChatGPT, effectively excluding those products from AI-generated recommendations. The piece cites OpenAI's research team estimating roughly 50 million daily shopping-related queries on ChatGPT alone.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-22
Zenodo, the open-access research repository, is experiencing slowdowns and intermittent outages caused by heavy automated traffic from bots and AI crawlers. The platform's team says it is aware of the issue and working to stabilize service.
zenodo.org
· 2026-09-12
Read the Docs disclosed that in mid-to-late June 2026 it suffered its largest-ever DDoS attack, with traffic peaking at roughly 5.5 million requests per minute—about 100 times normal levels—and lasting nearly ten days. The attack used millions of distributed IP addresses across many networks, including residential and hosting providers, and randomized HTTP headers and TLS fingerprints to evade detection while specifically targeting endpoints that bypass caching.
about.readthedocs.com
· 2026-09-09
A software developer published a personal essay cataloguing mixed emotions about AI: awe at how neural networks produce reasoning without explicit algorithms, fear over unresolved existential-risk arguments, disgust at crawlers overwhelming open web communities, sadness for artists undercut by AI-generated content, and anger at political systems failing to check corporate AI power and resource consumption. The author concludes AI feels promising as technology but troubling for society.
beza1e1.tuxen.de
· 2026-09-06
The maintainer of git.kernel.org reports that AI training crawlers are consuming more CPU resources than all legitimate access combined, including actual git clones. Across five geographically distributed nodes, 14 CPU cores are constantly occupied just rendering git commits as HTML pages for these bots, even though the same data is available far more efficiently via direct git clone.
people.kernel.org
· 2026-08-29
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