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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.
The US Government Is Using Pineapple Pizza to Explain Russian Political Interference
We asked an online disinformation expert why the controversial dish is an apt metaphor for how trolls are messing with our country.
Indian Instagram Influencers Have 16 Million Fake Followers
A study finds that Indian content creators have the third-highest number of bought followers, likes and boosted engagement in the world.
Tumblr’s Algorithm Thinks Vomiting Unicorns, Raw Chicken, and Boot Cleaners Are Porn
Users have been sharing their innocuous posts that have been deemed #TooSexyForTumblr.
99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality
A new report from Stanford University shows that most commenters were knowledgeable about the issue and very much in favor of keeping the protections.
Researchers Developed a New, Even More Convincing Way to Write Fake Yelp Reviews
A new machine learning method keeps AI on track when writing fake reviews.
This Twitter Bot Will Tell You if a Login Page is Phishing
@isthisphish takes submissions from users, then generates a report on how suspicious the domain seems to be.
Scammers Threaten to Review Bomb a Travel Company Unless it Pays Ransom
Twitter bots, fake reviews, and Instagram comments are the tools of a black hat SEO extortion attempt.