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 gets ...

In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) respect the rules in it. These days, ...

Carnivorous plants such as Nepenthes acquire the ability to reproduce even in soils lacking nutrients such as nitrogen by preying on insects. In addition, new research has shown that a type of ...

Some species that grow where insects are scarce encourage animals to poo in their pitchers Nepenthes carnivorous plants look like toilets, trapping insects and other small creatures in a bowl-shaped ...