Microsoft has built a bouncer for Teams meetings. There is now a literal velvet rope for bots. 'Suspected threats' is an actual lobby category. We are so back to nightclub access control as enterprise IT policy

#MicrosoftTeams #AIBots #EnterpriseIT #DigitalSovereignty #InfoSec #DataPrivacy #M365 #BotDetection #TechHumour #SovereignAuditor

The curse of AI bots.
I’m coming across way too many broken Cloudflare turnstile and Anubis installations.
If you want to block bots make sure you don’t block humans as well. The bots won’t, but the humans will go somewhere else.

#AI #aibots #captcha #cloudflare #anubis #hosting #web

My PineNote blog posts were linked to from the main body of a discussion thread on Hacker News but due to the consistent and prolific AI scraping it's barely a blip on my traffic. Remember when humans used to hug sites to death? In the old days this would absolutely stick out.

The good news is a human emailed me and asked me for my experience one year in and that was nice (which is also how I found out about the HN post). I'll share my response below until I get around to fleshing out a blog post from it:

I should absolutely do a write-up a year in. I'll give you the highlights:

• I lost my original PineNote and after a few months of trying to get it back, I ended up getting a replacement, which should say something all in itself.
• I wish the device was a little bit smaller and lighter, but I have gotten used to it.
• I use it as a single function device at a time, mostly writing or reading, very occasional computing.
• However, I on a month-long trip and I only brought along my work laptop and the PineNote instead of bringing a personal laptop. I can do all the personal computing that I need on the PineNote and my phone. See my setup here: https://shom.dev/posts/20250406_a-pinenote-only-5-day-weekend/
• I wish Pine64 would update their images with the kernel optimization created by the community member hrdl, they do link to it from their official docs.
• There is also an interesting project called QuillOS, which provides a nice interface to the whole system, but it's not ready for primetime on PineNote.

#PineNote #HackerNews #AIScrapers #AIBots

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@IndyRichard/116742831243262904

Informative, outrageous; & the Israeli govt apparently knew nothing about it: “Before scrubbing its online presence following enquiries from Reuters, ⁠BlackCore described itself ​as "an elite influence, cyber, and technology company built for the modern era of information warfare." It said ​it provided governments and political campaigns with "cutting-edge strategies, advanced tools, and robust security to shape narratives."
“It has not responded to repeated requests for comment.
“Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter in Paris. Writing by Dominique Vidalon and Gabriel ​Stargardter. Additional reporting by Raphael Satter in Washington, John Irish in Paris and Sam Tabahriti in London. Editing by Susan Fenton, Matthew Lewis and Kevin Liffey and Mark Potter”

#BlackCore #Israel #Scotland #AIBots #misinformation #disinformation #shapeNarratives #eliteInfluence #informationWarfare #notSoRobustSecurity

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#Bot #WebTraffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows

#Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now #AutomatedBot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated.

By Samantha Elkins
June 4, 2026, 6:27 PM EDT

"Website traffic from #AI agents and #bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance and impact.

" 'Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,' #MatthewPrince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, one of the largest internet hosting services, wrote Thursday on X.

“Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027,” he continued, “but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history.”

"The rise is attributed to the continued proliferation of AI agents, largely autonomous programs that use tools that collaborate with high-level programs and data, with little human feedback.

"Cloudflare, which has a feature to display bot versus human-generated search requests, says 57.4% of requests are now initiated by bots, compared with 42.6% coming from humans.

"Humans might browse five websites before making a purchase, however, while an AI service might browse 5,000 websites."

Read more:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bot-web-traffic-overtaken-human-web-traffic-data-shows-rcna348522

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Uwjne

#WebBots #AIBots #AIAgents #HumanWebTraffic #BotTraffic
#BigData #BigTech is #OutOfControl !