Recommended Reading: How Sony's AI outran the best sim racersThe week's best writing on technology and more. By B. Steele, 07.23.2022
Demand for the Justice League 'Snyder Cut' was reportedly amplified by botsA report showed that 'at least' 13 percent of online discourse was generated by bots.By S. Dent, 07.19.2022
AI trained on 4chan's most hateful board is just as toxic as you'd expectThe hyper-racist bots posted 15,000 times in one day.By J. Fingas, 06.08.2022
Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is 'temporarily on hold'He wants to confirm that spam/fake accounts 'do indeed represent less than 5 percent of users.'By S. Dent, 05.13.2022
Twitter tests a way for accounts to let people know they're botsIt's designed to help 'good bots' gain legitimacy. By S. Dent, 09.10.2021
Discord music bot Groovy is going offline after YouTube crackdownIt's shutting down on August 30th.By D. Hardawar, 08.25.2021
Twitch is purging 7.5 million bots that inflated view and follower countsThe news comes after users saw steep drops in their follow counts. By S. Dent, 04.15.2021
Valve is still letting bots invade one of its longest-running games'Team Fortress 2' has been nearly unplayable for over nine months.By J. Conditt, 03.31.2021
Social media bots may have fueled the GameStop stock frenzyJust how much of a role they played isn't clear.By J. Fingas, 02.28.2021
FTC issues first fines using a law against ticket scalping botsThe scalpers will pay over $3.7 million.By J. Fingas, 01.23.2021
Customer service chats are coming to Instagram DMsFacebook is testing Messenger API support for Instagram messages.By K. Holt, 10.19.2020
Instagram will make suspicious accounts verify their identitiesAccounts that don't comply may be disabled.By K. Bell, 08.13.2020
Valve is allowing racist bots to invade ‘Team Fortress 2’And players have had enough.By J. Conditt, 06.05.2020
Discord wants to clean up and support its massive bot communityDevelopers have got six months to get verified.By R. England, 04.08.2020
Twitter's new rules require labels for 'high-quality' botsNot all bots are bad, but they all need labels.By K. Bell, 03.10.2020
Online sneaker drop cancelled thanks to botsThe shady practice of using bots to cop sneakers is still causing problems. By M. DeAngelis, 02.03.2020
How to buy sneakers for the hypebeast in your lifeYou can either do it yourself or find a reseller to help you out.By E. Alvarez, 11.12.2019
Congress is asking vape manufacturers if they used social media botsBots that spew vaping spam are a uniquely modern problem.By C. Fisher, 10.14.2019
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