This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl ...

Most scraping failures are predictable once you look at the numbers. JavaScript powers over 98% of websites, so non-rendering fetchers naturally miss content. About half of global web traffic is ...

Millions now meet pop-ups demanding proof of humanity, as publishers toughen rules against scraping and AI training. Readers say they only clicked a ...

When you see the dog-eared girl with the magnifying glass, you're just encountering an Anubis checkpoint. Anubis is a ...

If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go?

Proxies block malicious bots, prevent data scraping, and detect proxy-aided fraud by filtering traffic and enforcing ...

As bots continue to evolve, any defense that relies on signatures, static rules, or exposed client-side code will inevitably ...

The JavaScript toolkit Bun 1.3 has been released. Announced as its largest release to date, the toolkit, with its four components—Runtime, Bundler, Test Runner, and Package Manager—offers, among other ...

This month’s theme is: Keep an eye on the future but hone your coding craft in the now. Start here, with nine timeless JavaScript coding concepts, a look at Nitro.js—fast becoming the go-to server ...

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 ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...