A recent surge in generative AI scraper bot activity has been observed impacting the online landscape. New data indicates that these “gray bots” are increasingly targeting web applications.

According to Thales' 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report, bots now comprise almost half of all global internet traffic. Bots can be used to automate a wide range of activities, including monitoring website ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

Rampant bot activity on DeFi platforms has pumped up the on-chain transaction volume of Solana-based stablecoins past $1 trillion in the first two months of this year alone. As of Feb. 22, Solana’s ...

Alejandro Quintero, a data analyst in Bogotá, owns a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities. As the content is written in “Spanglish,” he was surprised to see a surge in interest ...

The latest installment of the Twitter Files focused on the dubious source that the media and Democrats heavily relied on to peddle the false narrative of Russian bot activity on the platform. Substack ...

Perplexity responded swiftly with its own post, pointing out that its use of third-party crawlers was actually significantly less than Cloudflare was saying. But the crux of Perplexity’s rebuttal was ...

In July last year, an attempted assassin tried to take the life of President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Within 48 hours, conspiracy theories ran rampant on social media. One of them ...

We’ve all had that uncanny moment when we realize we’ve been talking to “someone” online when we realize it’s a robot responding. Long before the release of ChatGPT mainstreamed the act of talking to ...

What is a sniper bot? Sniper bots are automated software programmed for specific actions at predetermined times to find applications in online auctions, sales and crypto trading, ensuring precise ...