As a grown man who still possesses his delusional childhood belief that he would've crushed on Robot Wars, I was in my element playing Crash Bots. It's essentially everything that makes the show so ...

According to what's known as "dead internet theory"—once a fringe idea that has gained traction in recent years—data science researchers now estimate that a significant portion of Internet traffic, as ...

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

Utah Governor Spencer Cox warned that America's adversaries were trying to encourage violence by spreading disinformation online in the wake of the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, ...

I’m not arrogant enough to think that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reads what I write, but – meh – it’s possible. At the very least, I’m heartened to see we’re starting to come to some of the same ...

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization ...

Librarian Sondra Eklund spends her time stocking books for the public library system she works for in Virginia. One of her patrons recently asked the library to acquire a children’s book about pets ...

Dara-Abasi Ita writes about trading and investing for Investopedia and Investing.com, and he is an editor at Lawverse magazine. He has written about financial topics, including private equity, asset ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...

It’s no secret that social media has devolved into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful pressure to come up with effective guardrails and enforceable policies, ...

This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it's bad. Do you ever wish everyone in our hobby were more angry about ...

Students enrolled in Central Texas College’s College for Kids program are getting a head start on engineering skills this summer by designing and building their own battle bots. The class introduces ...