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Drones And Swarm Bots: An Adorable Preview Of Mankind’s Downfall
Up until now, the divide-and-conquer technique was mankind’s best approach to quelling any robot uprisings. But now that self-assembling swarm bots — scary in their own right — are teaming up with eye-in-the-sky drones to tackle tricky obstacles, we’re pretty much screwed.
The Bots That Run Wikipedia
Wikipedia is probably the most impressive crowdsourced endeavour in history, but if you think that every little edit is being clacked out in the basement lair of some volunteer, you’re very wrong. Wikipedia relies on an army of bots to keep the quality of articles high and the online army of trolls at bay.
World’s Third-Largest Spam Botnet Knocked Offline For Good
Salutations, My Dearest One: I am writing to you this blog post with joy and happy feelings in my heart, bringing news that will be of great interest and benefit to you. I write to you now because of the urgency of our situation: the world’s third-largest spam botnet was knocked offline today — for good.
Creepy 18th Century Robot Comes Back To Life
Back in the 18th century, this automaton called ‘The Writer’ was built by Jaquet Droz. After more than 200 years, the robot has been reanimated, and it’s way creepier than any robot made today.
Google Finally Puts Captchas To Good Use
Captchas are the Internet’s speed bump. They perform little function beyond slowing users down — not bots, mind you, just people. But now Google’s found a way to employ the oddly-fonted phrases for a different kind of verification.
Researchers Glean 250GB Of Facebook User Data With New Socialbot
Facebook’s “Immune System” might not be as robust as Zuckerberg believes. In fact, four researchers from the University of British Colombia have recently demonstrated just how easily a new breed of bot can infiltrate the FB system and harvest user data.
