Bots account for nearly half of global internet traffic, increasing the need for online security. Whether browsing on an ...

A fake CAPTCHA test on the landing page for iClicker.com appeared as a set of computer commands that secretly installed malware on a person's computer. When he's not battling bugs and robots in ...

It’s not as if it hasn’t been done before, but researchers at Stanford quantified ways to crack the CAPTCHA test many web sites use to make users prove they’re human, and recommended ways to make sure ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Google has axed its manual Captcha security tool to make way for a new, invisible system that can automatically detect non-human website visitors. Until now, internet users have often been asked to ...

It was a case of advanced Chat-fishing. Just in case artificial intelligence wasn’t parroting people well enough already: OpenAI’s brand-new GPT-4 — ChatGPT‘s newest tech update — tricked a human into ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Here’s the great thing about humans: We make mistakes. As programmers get better at building bots that can perfectly recognize obscured ...

Loathe it as we do, the captcha goes a long way to preventing websites from being inundated with spam comments produced by nefarious software. However, there’s room for improvement, and rather than ...

For years, Google has used the simple system of distorted text CAPTCHAs to determine whether users were humans or robots. Robots used to be unable to decipher distorted text, so they always failed the ...