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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.kernel.org/objects/e7adb69b-3ab3-478b-9070-9e620d3cca60">Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 11:59:18 JST</a><a href="https://social.kernel.org/users/corbet" title="corbet@social.kernel.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/115010-48-20230911163555.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Jonathan Corbet" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Jonathan Corbet</a></section><article>So I guess I'm famous now :)<br><br><a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.html">https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.html</a><br><br>To be clear, LWN has never "crashed" as a result of this onslaught.  We'll not talk about what happened after I pushed up some code trying to address it...<br><br>Most seriously, though: I'm surprised that this situation is surprising to anybody at this point.  This is a net-wide problem, it surely is not limited to free-software-oriented sites.  But if the problem is starting to get wider attention, that is fine with me...</article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4429528#notice-8666494">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-23T11:59:18+09:00" title="Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 11:59:18 JST">about 15 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.kernel.org/objects/e7adb69b-3ab3-478b-9070-9e620d3cca60" rel="external" title="Sent from social.kernel.org via ActivityPub">social.kernel.org</a></span></span><a href="https://social.kernel.org/objects/e7adb69b-3ab3-478b-9070-9e620d3cca60">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: heise.cloudimg.io</div><h5><a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.html">AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others</a></h5><div> from <span>heise online</span></div></header><div>Since the beginning of the year, AI bots have apparently been causing websites such as LWN.net to crash more frequently. It is said to be a major problem.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 11:59:18 JST Jonathan Corbet
So I guess I'm famous now :)

https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.html

To be clear, LWN has never "crashed" as a result of this onslaught. We'll not talk about what happened after I pushed up some code trying to address it...

Most seriously, though: I'm surprised that this situation is surprising to anybody at this point. This is a net-wide problem, it surely is not limited to free-software-oriented sites. But if the problem is starting to get wider attention, that is fine with me...
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  Since the beginning of the year, AI bots have apparently been causing websites such as LWN.net to crash more frequently. It is said to be a major problem.

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