The move comes just weeks after social aggregator Digg, which once aimed to rival Reddit, shut down its app, citing an ...

Multi-stage fraud attacks chain bots, proxies, and stolen credentials from signup to takeover. IPQS shows why correlating IP, ...

Reddit is cracking down on bots with new human verification checks for suspicious accounts. It also plans clearer labels for automated profiles so you can tell if you are interacting with software.

Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and ...

Digg’s Reddit-like relaunch failed fast, but its CEO is already planning another comeback. Digg’s Reddit-like relaunch failed fast, but its CEO is already planning another comeback. is a senior editor ...

Think about the time you spend waiting on hold, blocking junk messages, and clicking – and clicking, and clicking – to cancel unwanted subscriptions. A new report ascribes a cost to the “annoyance ...

Macworld outlines 10 strategies to combat iPhone spam, including unwanted calls, texts, and app notifications that disrupt daily device usage. Key solutions include using iOS’s Screen Unknown Callers ...

We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network. The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Quite a fuss has been made about Moltbook, the online chatroom launched to great fanfare last month. At first glance, it looks like Reddit and other such sites, said The Economist. Users post about ...

Facepalm: Ruthless companies are actively exploiting large language models and other AI products to automate highly sensitive vetting processes. Ventures operating in the brand protection space can ...

They’re canceling the robot apocalypse — for now at least. The AI bots who were supposedly caught predicting mankind’s downfall by 2047 were little more than Internet trolls roleplaying as machines ...