In 2025, picking the best programming language for automation can mean fewer headaches and faster results. This post walks through how to weigh speed, tool support, and ease of use. We look at Python, ...

After two decades, Reddit faces the emergence of AI chatbots that threaten to inhale its vast swaths of data and siphon its users.

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it.

As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

"AI scraping bots are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, and museums." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 17 Jun. 2025.

Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib streamline data cleaning, statistical analysis, and visualization directly within Excel.

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Reddit RDDT -1.45% is suing AI startup Anthropic for using the online discussion site’s data without a licensing agreement, a new front in the battle over how artificial-intelligence companies ...

Reddit had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the AI company behind the Claude chatbot has been using its data for years without permission ...

In its lawsuit, Reddit said Anthropic had also declined to enter into a licensing agreement for data and had unjustly enriched itself at Reddit’s expense.

Streamlining Web Search and Data Extraction The MCP server integrates with tools such as Brave for web searches and employs web scraping technologies to extract valuable data from websites.

The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.