Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.
Android

Google is Taking SerpApi to Court for Data Scraping on Search Results

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...
Computerworld

Google sues data scraping company

Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search ...
Reuters

Google lawsuit says data scraping company uses fake searches to steal web content

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Sued SerpApi Over Scraping Search Results

On Friday, Google announced it had filed a lawsuit (PDF) against SerpApi for scraping the Google search results. Google alleges that SerpApi is running an "unlawful" operation that bypasses Google’s ...
Search Engine Land

Google sues SerpApi over scraping and reselling Search data

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...
The New York Times

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Stealing Its Information

In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies. By Mike Isaac Reporting from San ...
Android

Publishers Adopt Aggressive New Tactics to Block AI Scraping

News publishers are actively fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical defenses. Companies are deploying cyber tactics like AI Tarpits and ...
IEEE

Design Science Research Approach in Developing Information Retrieval and Web Scraping ETL Architecture for Optimizing NSESDN Data in East Java Social Programs

Abstract: The National Socio-Economic Single Data (NSESDN) presents significant challenges for regional governments due to fragmented and unstructured data, which hampers effective policy and program ...
New York Magazine

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...
ZDNet

ChatGPT is reportedly scraping Google Search data to answer your questions - here's how

Reports reveal that OpenAI uses Google Search data to answer some of users' questions. The topics that use Google Search data mostly surround news, sports, and financial markets. OpenAI retrieves the ...