fastcompany

2025-07-30

How Cloudflare declared war on AI scrapers

CEO Matthew Prince unveils powerful new tools to block AI companies from freely scraping web content, a move that could redefine how publishers, platforms, and AI firms coexist on the internet.

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Destination

2025-07-01

Cloudflare experiment will block AI bot scrapers unless they pay a fee

Cloudflare has rolled out a couple of new measures meant to keep AI bot crawlers at bay. To start with, every new domain customer that signs up with the company to manage their website traffic will no [...]

Match Score: 120.00

Destination

2025-03-14

God of War's 20th anniversary celebration gives you Kratos' most badass throwback skin

Sony is celebrating God of War's 20th anniversary with goodies found in digital Norse mythological worlds, an LA art studio and your dusty old record player. The highlight is Kratos' positiv [...]

Match Score: 82.43

Destination

2025-06-20

Cloudflare CEO says people aren't checking AI chatbots' source links

Companies that develop generative AI always make it a point to say that they include links to websites in the answers that their chatbots generate for users. But Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has reve [...]

Match Score: 70.60

Destination

2025-05-06

Gears of War is coming to PlayStation for the first time on August 26

Yet another high-profile Xbox franchise is making the leap to PlayStation. While Halo isn't yet making the transition, Gears of War is about to join the likes of Forza Horizon 5 in crossing the [...]

Match Score: 52.45

Destination

2025-08-04

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appe [...]

Match Score: 50.24

Destination

2025-01-15

God of War Ragnarök headlines the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions for January

Sony is set to freshen up the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for Extra and Premium subscribers with a bunch of new additions in January. The obvious headliner here is God of War Ragnarök (PS4 and PS5 [...]

Match Score: 33.72

Destination

2025-03-21

Cloudflare unveils AI maze to trap unwanted web crawlers

Instead of simply blocking unwanted AI crawlers, Cloudflare has introduced a new defense method that lures them into a maze of AI-generated content, designed to waste their time and resources.<br / [...]

Match Score: 27.41

thenextweb

2025-06-18

War tech goes old school with Sweden’s first TNT factory since Cold War

A Swedish startup is taking defence tech back to basics — by building the country’s first TNT factory since the Cold War. Stockholm-based Swebal has secured a €3mn investment for the plant, slat [...]

Match Score: 26.23

Destination

2025-01-28

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon. [...]

Match Score: 25.74