{
  "id": 6187850,
  "title": "Creepy crawlies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/creepy-crawlies",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-07T23:08:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/7/creepy-crawlies/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Creepy crawlies Konstantin Ryabitsev discusses how bad the \"background radiation\" of abusive crawlers has become from the perspective of git.kernel.org , the official Git repository for the Linux kernel: TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones. At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}