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Cloudflare suggests non-human, bot-generated traffic will be a thousand times as large as actual flesh-and-blood users in the next few years.

Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, has issued a warning that AI-powered bots are rapidly rising in number on the internet and may soon dominate the online traffic. Prince highlighted at the SXSW ...

"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted." That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the ...

A new report released today by Thales SA had found that bot traffic now makes up nearly half of all internet traffic globally and that bad bots account for a significant number of those bots. The ...

Multiple cyber firms agree: bots outnumber humans online, challenging advertising, analytics and security systems designed around human visitors.

In the past year, the internet stopped being a human-majority place. Automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic in 2024, according to cybersecurity firm Human Security. Notably, ...

In 2024, bots generated over 50% of internet traffic for the first time in over a decade. Malicious bots—responsible for scraping, fraud, and account takeovers—made up two-thirds of all automated ...

Almost half (49.6%) of all internet traffic in 2023 was driven by bots – a 2% increase from the previous year, marking the highest level since cybersecurity firm Imperva began monitoring in 2013. This ...

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek’s chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans – Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Around 50 percent of ...

Nearly half the traffic on the internet is generated by automated entities called bots, and a large portion of them pose threats to consumers and businesses on the web. "[B]ots can help in creating ...

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most ...