Bots get a bad rap, but they’re not all bad. Without web crawlers, for example, search engines couldn’t index new content on the internet. But what is bad is when verification providers, including ...

It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help to weed out the bots (aka ...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman caused a stir when he told a tech show that the platform was considering some form of ID verification to combat bots. Now Huffman has officially addressed the issues in a ...

Most threats in any digital environment come from bots or botnets. While some bots are useful, some mimic human behavior with evil intentions. These malicious bots hoard resources, perform account ...

In recent years, public trust in the media has plummeted to unprecedented lows. This crisis of confidence is largely attributed to the contrasting natures of traditional media and social media. While ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

Now robots are doing the human. Artificial intelligence has become so sophisticated that it’s apparently no longer distinguishable from its human counterparts. The newest generation of ChatGPT has ...

The World project looks to offer an alternative method to existing bot prevention measures such as CAPTCHA and facial ...

Googlebot fraud happens when malicious bots pose as one of Google’s crawlers to sneak past your security rules, allowing them broader crawling and scraping access than typical traffic. From there, ...