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A coalition of civil liberties groups is urging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to veto Senate Bill 9934A, warning that its ban on 'stealth crawlers' will dismantle open-web scraping, search indexing, and security research.
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents rather than human users, aiming to bypass the resource-heavy overhead of Chromium.
A federal appeals court has clarified the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, ruling that building a web browser with AI capabilities does not constitute unauthorized access, a decision with significant implications for tech competition and innovation.