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		<title>Beyond IP lists: a registry format for bots and agents</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thibault Meunier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We propose an open registry format for Web Bot Auth to move beyond IP-based identity. This allows any origin to discover and verify cryptographic keys for bots, fostering a decentralized and more trustworthy ecosystem.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>One IP address, many users: detecting CGNAT to reduce collateral effects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[IPv4 scarcity drives widespread use of Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation, a practice in ISPs and mobile networks that places many users behind each IP address, along with their collected activity and volumes of traffic. We introduce the method we’ve developed to detect large-scale IP sharing globally and mitigate the issues that result.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>15 years of helping build a better Internet: a look back at Birthday Week 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, open-source partnerships, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Building unique, per-customer defenses against advanced bot threats in the AI era</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jin-Hee Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, we are announcing a new approach to catching bots: using models to provide behavioral anomaly detection unique to each bot management customer and stop sophisticated bot attacks.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI Week]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By mid-2025, training drives nearly 80% of AI crawling, while referrals to publishers (especially from Google) are falling and crawl-to-refer ratios show AI consumes far more than it sends back.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Announcing the Cloudflare Browser Developer Program</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sally Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Announcing the Browser Developer Program: Cloudflare’s new collaborative program to help shape Cloudflare challenges that work seamlessly with your browser. Join us today!]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriel Corral]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloudforce One]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generative AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mari Galicer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/07/01/from-googlebot-to-gptbot-whos-crawling-your-site-in-2025/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content. ]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jin-Hee Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/05/15/forget-ips-using-cryptography-to-verify-bot-and-agent-traffic/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thibault Meunier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bots now browse like humans. We're proposing bots use cryptographic signatures so that website owners can verify their identity. Explanations and demonstration code can be found within the post.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/03/19/trapping-misbehaving-bots-in-an-ai-labyrinth/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reid Tatoris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[generative AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Improved Bot Management flexibility and visibility with new high-precision heuristics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Curtis Lowder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By building and integrating a new heuristics framework into the Cloudflare Ruleset Engine, we now have a more flexible system to write rules and deploy new releases rapidly.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Extending Cloudflare Radar’s security insights with new DDoS, leaked credentials, and bots datasets</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/03/18/extending-cloudflare-radars-security-insights-with-new-ddos-leaked-credentials-and-bots-datasets/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For Security Week 2025, we are adding several new DDoS-focused graphs, new insights into leaked credential trends, and a new Bots page to Cloudflare Radar.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Radwa Radwan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nearly half of observed login attempts across websites protected by Cloudflare involved leaked credentials. The pervasive issue of password reuse is enabling automated bot attacks on a massive scale.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>No hallucinations here: track the latest AI trends with expanded insights on Cloudflare Radar</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/02/04/no-hallucinations-here-track-the-latest-ai-trends-with-expanded-insights-on-cloudflare-radar/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radar]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, we are launching a new dedicated “AI Insights” page on Cloudflare Radar that incorporates this graph and builds on it with additional metrics.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Grinch Bots strike again: defending your holidays from cyber threats</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2024/12/23/grinch-bots-strike-again-defending-your-holidays-from-cyber-threats/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Avi Jaisinghani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI Bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Application Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Application Services*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare observed a 4x increase in bot-related traffic on Black Friday in 2024. 29% of all traffic on our network on Black Friday was Grinch Bots wreaking holiday havoc.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>AI Everywhere with the WAF Rule Builder Assistant, Cloudflare Radar AI Insights, and updated AI bot protection</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Martinetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[AI Bots]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birthday Week]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This year for Cloudflare’s birthday, we’ve extended our AI Assistant capabilities to help you build new WAF rules, added new AI bot &#38; crawler traffic insights to Radar, and given customers new AI bot blocking capabilities]]></description>
		
		
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