Eight innovative tools that are reimagining web applications and how we build them. Welcome to the Great Unbloating.

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...

The snowballing ability of artificial intelligence to trawl open data sets has some scientists worried about losing control ...

Bright Data SDK relays scraping via 150M+ consent-sourced IPs, bypassing VPNs and using up to 200GB/month bandwidth.

Writing a scraper or two for a story is (usually) a fairly straightforward task for a data journalist who knows a bit of code ...

Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet. Security researcher ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Most discussions about vibe coding usually position generative AI as a backup singer rather than the frontman: Helpful as a performer to jump-start ideas, sketch early code structures and explore new ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

I get asked all the time how I scrape data, so today I’m sharing my favorite tools - no technical knowledge needed. From BuiltWith, a secret hack, and a Chrome extension plus GPT, to Outscraper, I’ll ...