Bot Swarms · August 2025Gaffe level: Blunder
Perplexity's Stealth Crawlers Are Dodging No-Crawl Directives
Cloudflare caught Perplexity's crawlers disguising themselves as regular Chrome browsers and rotating IPs to dodge robots.txt blocks. Told no, the bots just changed outfits and kept scraping.
Source: Cloudflare
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice