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Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked

Cloudflare has set the AI industry a deadline. From September, it will block the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training. Any page that carries ads becomes off-limits, unless the site’s owner says otherwise. The pitch is simple: stop giving the web away for free.

The company sits in front of a large share of the world’s web traffic. It announced the change on Wednesday. From 15 September, new Cloudflare sites will keep letting search engines index their pages. They will block AI training and AI agents from any page with advertising by default.

The rule also catches “mixed-use” crawlers, the bots that blend search, training, and agent tasks into one. If a crawler will not let a site owner separate those uses, it gets blocked on ad-supported pages.

The defaults apply to new customers and to new sites from existing customers. They also cover every free user who...

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The video game disc is dead

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Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together

Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously Security sleuths say last month’s FortiBleed campaign is tied to two separate ransomware groups, after they found evidence of one initial access broker group member logged in to two affiliate

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SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI

AI AND ML Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to hiring and business trips as tries to keep pace SAP is cutting hiring and business travel to boost its investment in AI amid intensifying competition in the enterprise application market. According to

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SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI