ZDNET's key takeaways New attack poisons sources AI chatbots use for content.Public sites like YouTube and Yelp abused to ...

Google’s various AI tools have been proving their worth as of late, but a common criticism is how Google has built these tools by scraping the work of publishers and creators across the web without ...

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 — or RSL for short — gives ...

Google Search Console treats every AI Overview impression as a regular impression. When an AI Overview appears for your ...

Caught in the crossfire are advocates for an open internet, and small-time content creators who want to get compensation for ...

We tend to lump together security, which protects the infrastructure, and privacy, which protects the user. They’re really ...

The specification includes an XML vocabulary for describing content usage, licensing, and legal terms of service. The RSL ...

The war over who controls internet content just hit a new milestone. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced that his company ...

It’s an interesting pivot for Google. Most AI companies are currently investing in web browsing via the AI browser idea, ...

Google sees 3.2x more webpages than OpenAI. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wants Google to separate search crawling from AI ...

Search engines are a great way to find information, but these technologies are also helping criminals access your personal ...

Google has just sent out an email to active users of its “Dark Web Report” tool to inform them that, as of February 16, 2026, the tool will be shut down. The feature was made available to all Google ...