A developer documented six CrawlForge MCP server releases shipped between September 16 and 27, 2026, after discovering that routing traffic through residential proxies did nothing to bypass Cloudflare…
DataDome's Bot and Agent Security Report found that malicious automated traffic grew 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, nine times faster than human web traffic growth over the same period, based o…
Malicious bot activity rose 124% between July 2025 and June 2026 while human traffic grew 13.2%, and traffic from AI agents and large language model crawlers climbed 82.3% over the same period, accord…
DataDome's State of Bot & Agent Security Report, 2026 Edition found that 313 million AI requests reached login pages in the first half of 2026, equal to 51.7% of the 605.6 million requests to high-ris…
A new analysis of DataDome's anti-bot JavaScript Tag 5.9.4 on leboncoin.fr found the sensor is 124 KB of minified JavaScript with readable method names and a plain base64 string table, a simpler obfus…
Meta's two crawlers, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-WebIndexer, now carry the majority of AI agent traffic, growing 74% and 163% quarter over quarter, respectively, according to bot-defense vendor DataDo…
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…