Reddit Pulls the Plug on Free Access: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Platform’s War on AI Scraping and the End of RSS

Executive Overview In a sweeping overhaul of its technical infrastructure and data policies, Reddit has announced a series of aggressive measures designed to curb automated bot activity, protect its proprietary ecosystem, and shut down unauthorized data extraction. The most notable developments include the official sunsetting of traditional RSS feeds by November 13, 2026, and the…

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Unmasking Popa: How a Mass Smart TV Botnet Powered a Nasdaq-Listed Proxy Enterprise and the AI Scraping Boom

Executive Overview For over four years, an expansive Android-based botnet known as Popa has silently co-opted millions of consumer television boxes, smart TVs, and mobile devices globally. Functioning not as a traditional destructive botnet armed for massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Popa was engineered with a singular, lucrative objective: establishing a persistent, encrypted communication layer…

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