That post or comment you saw on social media that made you mad - there's a good chance that it's not even real.

Online social networks are crawling with autonomous computer programs that spread propaganda in attempt to manipulate voters and otherwise influence political processes. Researchers are beginning to ...

Within hours of the school shooting in Broward County, Florida, computer experts discovered pro and anti-gun control tweets that appear to be linked to Russian bots. A bot is a computer program ...

While many network administrators worry about the next worm, security experts are warning that a quieter but equally damaging threat is slowly gaining control of large networks of computers. Known as ...

Chalk this up as further evidence of the impending demise of civilisation, along with the climate, large language models and the increasingly ubiquitous implementation of the Oxford comma. Now it's ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly demonstrated its superiority over humans when it comes to solving online CAPTCHA tests designed to differentiate between human users and automated bots. Can ...

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1789. Had he lived in the modern era, Franklin may well have added “software bugs” to his list.

Analyst Forrester defines robotic process automation (RPA) as a technology that provisions software agents – bots – that can mimic human interactions with software systems. These bots run predictable ...

A Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became so enthralled by an AI chatbot that he may have sacrificed his job to defend it. “I know a person when I talk to it,” he told The Washington Post for a ...