How to Easily Scrape Google Trends with 4 Proven Methods

Want to unlock real-time market insights without manual searching? Learn how to scrape Google Trends and automate your ...
New York Magazine

Why AI Companies Are Suddenly So Worried About Theft

Anthropic, which has positioned itself as the cautious, safety-focused lab, suggests that model scraping could be used to build powerful tools stripped of safeguards meant to “prevent state and ...
Futurism

Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place

Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The company, alongside many of its competitors in the AI space, has been indiscriminately ...
Newsweek

H-1B Visas To Be Permanently Scrapped Under New Plan

A Republican lawmaker has proposed a new bill in Congress that seeks to permanently end the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations. Supporters ...
TechCrunch

Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers’ payment records

A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade “stalkerware” phone surveillance apps, exposing the email addresses and partial payment information ...
New York Post

8,000 flights scrapped, adding to travel nightmare as severe winter storm takes aim at 40 states

A “catastrophic” winter storm that is set to slam at least 40 states from Arizona to Maine was already causing a travel nightmare across the US. At least 1,111 flights on Friday were cancelled, ...
CNN

Here’s how AI data centers affect the electrical grid

Tech giants are in a heated race to build data centers and dominate the AI landscape. But America might not be ready for the energy demand. The country’s aging electrical grid could struggle to keep ...
Ars Technica

Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, ...
Bleeping Computer

Instagram denies breach amid claims of 17 million account data leak

Instagram says it fixed a bug that allowed threat actors to mass-request password reset emails, amid claims that data from more than 17 million Instagram accounts was scraped and leaked online. "We ...
Marketplace

Data scraped from the web for AI is out — specialized human-made data is in

Now that many AI algorithms have mastered simple tasks, companies are looking to train their models on data directly from engineers, lawyers, scientists, and more. Josh Dzieza is the investigations ...
Android Authority

The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! (Updated: New Spotify statement)

Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped almost all of Spotify. The archive includes metadata for 256 million tracks and audio for 86 million songs. The total size of the archive is nearly 300TB, being ...