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negativeSYS.SOURCE: people.kernel.org• 2026-08-29T17:49:01Z

AI Crawler Traffic Overloading Git Kernel Infrastructure

#ai#web scraping#system load#infrastructure

The article discusses how AI crawlers are causing significant system load on git.kernel.org by inefficiently rendering commits as HTML. Despite implementing a mitigation challenge (Anubis), bots continue to bypass it, with 33% of daily requests successfully passing through.

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