The Web Elon Musk wants to charge all users of X, formerly Twitter, a monthly fee To combat the bot problem, allegedly By Rob Thubron, September 19, 2023, 8:08 AM 27 comments
The Web Security Study finds that bots can outperform humans in almost all Captcha tests Bots are especially good at click Captchas and reading distorted text By Daniel Sims, August 11, 2023, 5:48 PM 12 comments
The Web Nearly half of all Internet traffic in 2022 came from bots Human Internet traffic continues to declide By Shawn Knight, May 17, 2023, 10:46 AM 14 comments
The Web Cloudflare launches invisible, privacy-focused Captcha to take on Google No more box picking By Rob Thubron, September 29, 2022, 5:18 AM
The Web Industry The analysts Elon Musk hired to count Twitter bots found fewer than he expected, claims company 5%, 11%, or 20%, what's the real number? By Rob Thubron, September 28, 2022, 6:51 AM 16 comments
Tech Culture Elon Musk says $44 billion Twitter deal will complete if it shows bot-counting method, challenges CEO to debate Elon Musk, bot hater By Rob Thubron, August 8, 2022, 7:55 AM 36 comments
Industry The Web Elon Musk Twitter acquisition in "serious jeopardy" over fake accounts issue Does Musk want to walk away or is he looking to lower the price? By Rob Thubron, July 8, 2022, 9:48 AM 11 comments
Industry The Web Elon Musk says he can walk away from the Twitter deal over "material breach" Musk claims Twitter is withholding information on fake accounts By Rob Thubron, June 7, 2022, 8:36 AM 40 comments
Security Ukraine shuts down five bot farms spreading panic and misinformation among its citizens Security services seized 100,000 SIM cards, computer equipment, and weapons By Rob Thubron, March 29, 2022, 11:19 AM 14 comments
Gaming Lost Ark bans over one million bot accounts The biggest wave of bot bans in an MMO so far By Vann Vicente, March 6, 2022, 8:17 AM
The Web Tech Culture 'The Wordlinator' bot that was trolling Wordle players on Twitter got banned It violated Twitter's spam rules By Cal Jeffrey, January 25, 2022, 2:35 PM
The Web Industry Democratic lawmakers introduce bill that could ban auto-checkout bots To stop them from 'stealing Christmas' By Cohen Coberly, December 1, 2021, 7:26 AM 48 comments
Gaming Team Fortress 2 just peaked at 150,000 players on Steam, a new record And most of them weren't bots, says devs By Isaiah Mayersen, June 27, 2021, 10:16 AM
Hardware Fake RTX 3000-series eBay listings claim they're targeting bots, but is it a scammer's excuse? No refunds, no returns By Rob Thubron, March 2, 2021, 9:32 AM 19 comments
Security The Web Over 500 million Facebook users' phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot Taken from a 2019 vulnerability By Rob Thubron, January 26, 2021, 6:37 AM
Industry The FTC cracks down on ticket scalpers issuing over $31 million in fines The Commission reduced the penalties by 88 percent due to 'inability to pay' By Cal Jeffrey, January 22, 2021, 4:04 PM 13 comments
Gaming Walmart blocked 20 million PS5 scalper bots in 30 minutes It promises more next-gen consoles will be available "soon" By Rob Thubron, December 18, 2020, 7:57 AM 43 comments
Gaming Hardware Scalper company secured almost 3,500 PS5 consoles for resale, says it has "no regrets" The main reason why you can't get one By Rob Thubron, November 26, 2020, 6:30 AM 60 comments
Gaming Microsoft Microsoft warns Xbox Series X/S supply issues will last until at least April 2021 Just don't turn to scalpers for one By Rob Thubron, November 17, 2020, 5:16 AM
Gaming Hardware UK retailer charging $3,000 for Xbox Series X But it's not what it seems By Rob Thubron, October 15, 2020, 10:17 AM
Hardware The Web Bots snap up RTX 3090 cards at launch, despite Nvidia's efforts eBay is flooded with cards selling at inflated prices By Rob Thubron, September 25, 2020, 5:18 AM 46 comments
Hardware Scalpers are selling RTX 3080 cards on eBay for thousands of dollars, Nvidia taking action Missed out on an RTX 3080? You can buy one on eBay for a 3,476% markup By Rob Thubron, September 18, 2020, 5:15 AM 82 comments
The Web Science Report shows one quarter of all tweets about climate change are produced by bots Bots were responsible for 38% of all tweets mentioning "fake science" By William Gayde, February 22, 2020, 8:40 AM 69 comments
Security Google Google study shows the importance of recovery phone numbers Adding a phone number to your Google account helps keep it secure By Rob Thubron, May 20, 2019, 8:16 AM
Tech Culture Russian bots strike again, this time targeting a TV talent show for kids They ensured a millionaire's daughter won By Rob Thubron, May 17, 2019, 8:27 AM 18 comments