Cross Bot will analyze your games in Crossplay, a new two-player word game from The Times. By Asmaa Elkeurti Tom Giratikanon and Eve Washington New York Times Games has launched Crossplay, a new ...

For over 5 years, Arthur has been professionally covering video games, writing guides and walkthroughs. His passion for video games began at age 10 in 2010 when he first played Gothic, an immersive ...

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 ...

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 ...

An important discovery of our meme-stock-and-crypto age is that stocks go up because people buy them. It’s more of a rediscovery. But there was a long period when people thought that stocks go up for ...

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A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, ...

I n her 35 years of teaching, Julie Brown has never seen anything like it. Fake students — bots, as she calls them — have been enrolling in her courses at an alarming rate. Last fall, the marketing ...

The main campus of Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. Like many California community colleges, Southwestern has been plagued by bots that obtain state and federal financial aid money by ...

Welcome to the world of social media mind control. By amplifying free speech with fake speech, you can numb the brain into believing just about anything. Surrender your blissful ignorance and swallow ...

Automated traffic now accounts for the majority of activity on the web, with the share of bad bot traffic surging from 32% to 37% annually last year, according to Thales. The French defense giant’s ...

Bots get a bad rap, but they’re not all bad. Without web crawlers, for example, search engines couldn’t index new content on the internet. But what is bad is when verification providers, including ...