Google posted new developer documentation for how to authenticate requests with Web Bot Auth. This is a "new cryptographic protocol that helps websites to validate that bots are authentic," Google ...

Google is testing Web Bot Auth, an experimental protocol designed to help websites verify that automated traffic is really coming from the bot or service it claims to represent. The new protocol could ...

Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what ...

It was an agent of chaos. An AI system’s attempt to handle a routine task backfired terribly after it inadvertently deleted the company’s entire database in just seconds. The epic blunder came to ...

Today, you can use Google Messages for web using QR code pairing or Google Account sign-in. The original login method will soon go away. Opening messages.google.com ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

The Google Messages web app won’t allow users to pair using QR codes for much longer, according to a new warning. Users will instead have to sign in using their Google account credentials. We don’t ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

Anthropic now lists separate bots for training and search, while also running user-requested fetchers for browsing. Blocking search bots has direct discoverability consequences. Anthropic warns ...

Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools. Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools. is a ...

We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network. The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ...