Chimpanzees in Uganda use plants to treat wounds and help injured companions, revealing potential roots of human medicine.

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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts New approach punishes AI companies that ignore "no crawl" directives.

Nepenthes intentionally traps data-scraping bots in a never-ending loop of nonsense to waste computing power.

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Nepenthes is a worm that creates infinite maze-like traps to target crawlers, who scrape data to train large language models (LLMs). The author warns that Nepenthes 'actually eats everything that ...

Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them.

Configured as a trap behind a web server (e.g. /nepenthes), any web crawler that accesses it will be presented with an endless number of (randomly generated) pages with many URLs to follow.

Background The Palaeotropical pitcher plant genus Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae) is characterized by specialized nutrient sequestration strategies, narrow endemism, and a patchy distribution in which ...

KOTA KINABALU: A type of giant hairy pitcher plant which was first photographed in 2004, has officially been named after it was recognised as a new species and classified as Critically Endangered.

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