Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...

This study from Suganthan reveals hidden fields in ChatGPT's network traffic that decide which sources get fetched, cited, or ...

Newspaper publishers across the country are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly scraping their websites to train their ...

Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

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In the modern digital industry, web scraping has become critically necessary for developers. Companies must rely on the ...

Dozens of cryptographically verified open source packages from Microsoft were compromised late last week to add advanced credential-stealing code that was triggered when developers opened them in AI ...

Trafilatura is a cutting-edge Python package and command-line tool designed to gather text on the Web and simplify the process of turning raw HTML into structured, meaningful data. It includes all ...

In 2024, the elephant in the room was how generative artificial intelligence seized the conversation. In 2025, the dialog shifted to agents and the question of whether there’s an AI bubble happening ...

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Computer scientists based in South Korea have devised what they describe as an "AI Kill Switch" to prevent AI agents from carrying out malicious data scraping. Unlike network-based defenses that ...