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Bot markets selling stolen data are a big problem for India
Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on bot markets to date – India is the worst affected country, says NordVPN. Read more…
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Bad bots account for a lot of internet traffic, and that’s bad for everyone
Over 37% of internet traffic in APAC isn’t generated by humans, but by bots. Most of them are bad bots. And the problem is getting worse. Read more…
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Beware the bots – the rise of the machine Asia style
Organisations worldwide are building a digital workforce of bots – let’s take a closer look at the fast-growing bot market in Asia. Read more…
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Scammers turn to bots and automation to stay undetected
Cybercrime is big business, and scammers are increasingly turning to bots and automation to make their attacks more efficient and effective and help them avoid detection, according to new research from Barracuda, a trusted partner Read more…
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How to beat South Korea’s AI hiring bots and land a job
Top South Korean firms are rolling out AI (artificial intelligence) in hiring – and jobseekers want to learn how to beat the bots to land a job. Read more…
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Zealot-bots and other ways disinformation disrupts democracy
We’ll be seeing more disinformation spreading on social media during the 2020 US elections. And all it would take to flip the results may be a handful of bots. Read more…
Features
Friday Futures: DNA/facial recognition, Game of Thrones by bot
This week: DNA and facial recognition; Teslas’ new factory; 5G interferes with weather forecasting; Facebook and voice patterns; Game of Thrones, by a bot. Read more…
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Oh, good – AI bots won’t replace journalists, says Axel Springer CEO
BERLIN (Reuters) – The use of robot journalism, or articles generated by artificial intelligence, does not pose a threat to jobs, the chief executive of German publisher Axel Springer said on Wednesday. “Is it going Read more…
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Reliance Jio launches AI-powered video call bot platform
Reliance Jio has announced the launch of JioInteract, an “AI-based brand engagement platform” that is essentially a bot for enabling interactive video calls. Jio is positioning the platform as a “VCBaaS (Video Call Bot as Read more…
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Think fast! Bots will determine if you have the skills for the job
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Andrew Chamberlain started in his job four years ago in the research group at jobs website Glassdoor.com, he worked in a programming language called Stata. Then it was R. Then Read more…
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Your other big cybersecurity problem: the Persirai IoT botnet
Trend Micro has discovered a new attack on internet-based IP cameras and recorders powered by a new Internet of Things (IoT) bot dubbed Persirai. The Persirai botnet has targeted over 1,000 different models of vulnerable Read more…
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The future of Facebook Messenger is … financial chatbots? Really?
Facebook’s David Marcus – he of PayPal fame, who moved to Facebook to make Messenger great – recently announced Messenger Platform 2.0. Apparently financial services companies are poised to take advantage of the platform in order Read more…
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How Amazon is using bots to fight – and win – online shopping price wars
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Earlier this year, engineers at Wal-Mart who track rivals’ prices online got a rude surprise: the technology they were using to check Amazon.com several million times a day suddenly stopped working. Read more…