Bots increasingly take part in scientific studies.There was a time, just a couple of decades ago, when researchers in psychology and health always had to engage with people face-to-face or using ...

Around 50 percent of Internet traffic comes from non-human sources (that is from automated systems). Within this array of code, bad bots are thought to comprise nearly one-third of all traffic ...

Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.

While “good bots” such as search engine crawlers or uptime checkers have held steady, the real story is the rise of malicious bots, whose share has surged from 26% in 2020 to today’s 37%.