Automated traffic now accounts for more than half of all web requests, according to Cloudflare, and the tools built to ...

Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale For the first time in a decade, automated traffic ...

Experts are sounding the alarm over YouTube’s deepfake detection tool — a new safety feature that could allow Google to train its own AI bots with creators’ faces, according to a report. The tool ...

Rachel is a freelancer based in Echo Park, Los Angeles and has been writing and producing content for nearly two decades on subjects ranging from tech to fashion, health and lifestyle to entertainment ...

Six months ago, I wrote about the AI bots crisis facing publishers: Traffic is plummeting, unauthorized scraping is surging and the industry is scrambling to protect its assets. The problem of ...

Automated traffic now accounts for most of the traffic traversing the Web, according to a recently released study. Thales/Imperva's 2025 "Bad Bot Report" found that 37% of all Internet traffic is ...

Social bots are automated or semi-automated accounts that interact, post and replicate human behaviour across online social networks. Their presence spans marketing, political campaigning and the ...

Folco Panizza is assistant professor of prosocial behaviour and decision making at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. Surveys are a cornerstone of social-science research. Over the ...

Large language model (LLM) crawlers are harvesting content at scale for training and redistribution, the result often being IP theft, SEO dilution and lost revenue. Yet 68% of media and publishing ...

As a tech journalist who writes and edits daily, AI-generated content is a real concern for me. Will AI eventually render me useless in the industry I’ve given years of my life to by replacing ...

Cybercriminals have found a new way to get around what has been an effective deterrent to phishing attacks, with novel anti-bot services sold on the Dark Web that allow them to bypass the protective ...