Bots are ruining the internet. When they’re not pummeling a website with usernames and passwords from a long list of stolen credentials, they’re scraping the price of hotels or train tickets and odds ...

在过去两年间，像是机器人（bots）、水军（botnets）和喷子（trolls）这样的词进入了关于社交网络以及它们对于民主产生的影响的主流话语。然而，恶意的社交媒体账户常常是被误读的，使得关于它们的话语体系从实质到定义都偏离了。 这篇文章列出了DFR实验室 ...

Facebook says that it now uses the same techniques as bot removal to combat human trolls and spammers. The company told Reuters that this new approach is similar to what its security team uses to shut ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Clearly someone hasn’t learned about the Curse Of Wordle. A grade-A prick has created a Twitter bot that looks for those tweeting their score for that ...

Nearly half of all web traffic is from “bots.” That statistic alone should grab your attention, but the one that should worry you more is that “bad” bots are growing in number and reach. They’re also ...

Elon Musk absolutely hates Twitter bots. That’s really no secret at this point, but of course in the recent Twitter all-hands meeting, the matter came up again. Musk was involved in the most recent ...