As the inexorable rise of AI and robots proceeds, the division is growing between those that embrace cognitive computing and Intelligence as a Service as an inevitable good and those that… Read more »
Twitter has developed a system called BotMaker to deal with its spam problem. Essentially, BotMaker scans messages before they’re posted, after they’re posted, and as part of bulk data analyses in… Read more »
Twitter has released updated figures on how many of its users read tweets using some kind of third-party or automated service, saying about 20 million accounts fit that description. While these… Read more »
A start-up that sells $799 subscriptions to recruiters is stocking its database with profiles that it obtained from LinkedIn by using an army of bots. Read more »
LinkedIn says unknown people have been creating a wave of fake profiles in order to scrape the profiles of hundreds of thousands of users, and offer a competing recruiting product. Here’s… Read more »
A growing army of bots are doing everything from leaving comments to entering sweepstakes, harming the online environment for both publishers and advertisers. Solve Media has a study on the problem. Read more »
“Fraud is the elephant in the digital room” according to a report on digital ad campaigns published today by metrics company comScore (NSDQ:… Read more »