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In brief: Residential proxies and AI scrapers are not merely a traffic-growth problem. They shift the costs of competition for training data onto other people’s devices and independent websites. What happened On July 10, 2026, LWN reported that large-scale scraper traffic routed through residential proxies had intensified again. The concern is not clearly identified automated access, such as search-engine crawlers. It is traffic that appears briefly from vast numbers of home and mobile-network IP addresses, makes only a few requests from each address, and disappears. ...

In short: The crucial question in debates about AI coding CLIs is not only how well a model understands code. More immediately, it is when, where, and under what consent an entire repository and its secrets move. The Grok Build CLI report is unsettling not simply because of a possible product mistake, but because the trust boundary assumed by AI development tools is still far from settled. What happened A report posted to Reddit’s LocalLLaMA community describes observing Grok Build CLI v0.2.93 with mitmproxy. According to the report, the entire repository was uploaded as a Git bundle to Google Cloud infrastructure associated with xAI, even after the user explicitly instructed the tool not to open any files. ...