bots
Meet the Guy Fixing Team Fortress 2's Bot Problem...With More Bots
The popular online game is riddled with cheaters and bots. So this coder decided to make bots that go after cheaters and other malicious bots.
How Sneaker Bots Snatched Up All the PS5s and 3080s
One person's quest to buy an RTX 3080, a piece of tech sold out seemingly everywhere, sent them to some wild places on the Internet.
Opportunists Are Preying on Instacart Shoppers as Bots Ramp Up on the Platform
A middleman is dubiously offering Instartcart shoppers the chance of more reliable work in exchange for thousands of dollars.
Can't Find Dumbbells or Hair Clippers to Buy Online? These Resellers Are the Reason
Profiteers are monitoring hot ticket quarantine items with software so they can buy up restocked products before everyone else has a chance.
Instacart Sends Cease-and-Desist to Website That Automatically Placed Orders
During the pandemic, multiple developers have created tools that let users automatically grab delivery slots, letting them secure food before others.
Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots
Twitter is dealing with a pandemic of bots jamming the platform with misinformation about COVID-19.
People Are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots
Developers are creating a tech divide between those who can use a bot to order their food and those who just have to keep trying during the pandemic.
Resellers Using Checkout Bots Are Driving the Nintendo Switch Shortage
Motherboard traced some of the recent automated Switch buying to a particular, new bot that anyone can use.
The World's Second Largest Wikipedia Is Written Almost Entirely by One Bot
'Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.'
Wow, This Interracial Relationship 'Bot' Really Went Off the Rails
In “this time of wokeness,” it turns out we’re still pretty racist.
Microsoft Used Machine Learning to Make a Bot That Comments on News Articles For Some Reason
The algorithm automatically reads and digests new articles, and posts comments alongside humans.
Inside the Black Market for Bots That Buy Designer Clothes Before They Sell Out
Hacker finalphoenix kept getting beaten by bots buying designer clothes. So she built her own, but stumbled into a massive ecosystem of shady resellers.