Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it.

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI.

Global banking giant UBS has suffered a data breach following a cyber-attack on a third-party supplier. In a statement emailed to Infosecurity, a UBS spokesperson confirmed a breach had occurred, but ...

Heroku is suffering a widespread outage that has lasted over six hours, preventing developers from logging into the platform and breaking website functionality.

Bryan police alerting thousands to ID theft risk after woman admits to buying data on ‘dark web’ Police say Dianne Hutson, 25, of Trinity, had identifying information of 4,000+ people ...

Originally released on the dark web in 2024, the repackaged data includes names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, street addresses, and social security numbers.

Already, scientists have found a treasure trove of early galaxies. COSMOS-Web provides the largest view deep into the universe ever, and now an easily searchable catalog with all of the data is ...

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

What happens when an engineer builds a smart garden? This Arduino-powered system automates watering while collecting real-time data on soil moisture, temperature, and sunlight. From sensor ...

As part of an effort to make building AI-powered chatbots on the web simpler, Microsoft is launching an open project called NLWeb.

NLWeb is an open project developed by Microsoft that aims to make it simple to create a rich, natural language interface for websites using the model of their choice and their own data. Our goal is ...