Overview:  As bots grow more sophisticated in 2025, CAPTCHA tools have shifted from puzzles to behavior-based verification that protects platforms without ...

OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season. The folks at Merj noticed OpenAI adding a lot of new IP ranges for its bots and crawlers. Ryan Siddle from ...

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 ...

Astro first appeared with PlayStation back in 2026 with The PlayRoom on PS4, a tech demo game designed to showcase the new PlayStation Camera and DualShock 4 features. He was one of many tiny "Bots" ...

The latest phase of FIFA's ticket lottery for the 2026 World Cup has not gone off without a hitch. A 'captcha' test is typically designed to determine if an online user is really a human and not a bot ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Not long after Battlefield Studios patched XP farms out of Battlefield 6's Portal mode, the studio has announced a new official "casual" mode that ...

The Bot Company, a startup working on robots that can do chores for people, is set to raise $250 million in a funding round that will value the company at more than $4 billion, according to people ...

Russian state-backed hackers are using fake “I am not a robot” CAPTCHA pages to deliver new strains of espionage malware, according to Google Cloud’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), marking a fresh ...

Are you human? A new game wants you to prove it. I’m Not a Robot is a fun spin on the popular CAPTCHA game synonymous with using the internet. Except it’s not just one game, but 48 increasingly absurd ...

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 ...

Cybercriminals are abusing AI platforms to create and host fake CAPTCHA pages to enhance phishing campaigns, according to new Trend Micro research. Attackers are exploiting the ease of deployment, ...