Tried to use /robots.txt to tell bots to stay out. The bots' response: "Your rules are adorable. Now, where's the content? Hmm, what's this 'disallow' thing? Looks like a suggestion for a really fast crawl!" om nom om nom

PS: As per that SO's robots.txt file, Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Bing, or LLM/AI (or anyone) should not show SO content, yet they all ignore it. Moral of the story for developers: robots.txt files are useless these days. They don't follow rules.

via https://jade.ellis.link/blog/2025/05/18/actually-stopping-forgejo-ai-scraping via @valere

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains.

+ https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/12/21/12-21-botsin-space-post-mortem/

via @mascottus

Ecovacs robot vacuums have been hacked across the U.S. to shout racial slurs at unsuspecting people. VICE News reports: The issue is specifically with Ecovacs' Deebot X2 model. The hackers gained control of the devices and used the onboard speakers to blast racial slurs at anyone within earshot. On...