DataDome recorded 17.7 billion AI-agent requests across its customer network in Q2 2026, with Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-WebIndexer generating 9.1 billion of those requests, more than half the total.…
Spur Intelligence announced on July 28, 2026 that Insight Partners has led a $200 million investment in the company, one of the largest single checks written for a cybersecurity startup this year. The…
A developer's practical guide to Python web scraping in 2026 warns that basic techniques like `time.sleep()` lead to blocks, recommending `httpx` with `selectolax` for static pages, Playwright for cli…
AI agent traffic surged 45% in Q2 2026 to 17.7 billion requests, according to a DataDome report, as publishers shift focus from referral traffic to controlling how AI agents consume content. Meta's RA…
A developer open-sourced HatFetch, an MIT-licensed MCP server that gives AI agents tools to read the web, including sites that block bots. HatFetch provides three tools—scrape, crawl, and screenshot—r…
Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default on new domains, causing LLM agents to hallucinate responses when they receive block pages instead of actual data. Developers are turning to stealth browser…
An open-source stealth browser called Fortress successfully bypasses Cloudflare's bot detection on multiple high-traffic sites including Indeed, Zillow, and StockX, solving a problem where AI agents s…
Tilion released an open-source MCP server that gives AI agents like Claude Code a stealth Chromium engine to bypass web blocking systems such as Cloudflare, DataDome, and PerimeterX. The tool runs loc…
A developer built browser-search, a set of three open-source tools that enable AI agents to search and browse the web without API keys or subscriptions. The tools—SearXNG, Camofox, and CloakBrowser—wo…