Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

The company has filed a lawsuit to stop the 'BadBox 2.0' malware, alleging the China-based culprits have spread the infection ...

In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like ...

Cloudflare says that, of customer‑identified DDoS attacks, competitors are behind 63% of attacks, and 5% are self‑inflicted.

Cloudflare recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape the open web without paying a cent. According ...

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wants Google to offer improved tools to block AI crawlers. Joining a discussion on this topic ...

Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit ...

Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.

A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to ...

Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting for new customers that would block bots that artificial intelligence firms ...

Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.

More than 200 pirate domains blocked A fresh wave of site blocking has hit the UK’s already long list of outlawed pirate domains, but this time there’s an unexpected new enforcer. Cloudflare, normally ...