Google added a new crawler, robot, to its list of user-triggered fetchers in the Google crawlers documentation. This specific bot is named Google Messages and it is a fetcher "used to generate link ...

Cross Bot will analyze your games in Crossplay, a new two-player word game from The Times. By Asmaa Elkeurti Tom Giratikanon and Eve Washington New York Times Games has launched Crossplay, a new ...

Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of service, the senators argue. Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the invention of the CAPTCHA. The great gatekeeper of the internet was originally created by students at Carnegie Mellon University to prevent bots from rigging ...

Google DeepMind is teaming up with Boston Dynamics to give its humanoid robots the intelligence required to navigate unfamiliar environments and identify and manipulate objects—precisely the kinds of ...

Googlebot fraud happens when malicious bots pose as one of Google’s crawlers to sneak past your security rules, allowing them broader crawling and scraping access than typical traffic. From there, ...

After the whole “BG3 players exploit children” thing, it seems Google got the message. Its bot is still spitting nonsense like “Prebuilts beat DIY builds” and it’s linking to unrelated stories instead ...

“The CAFC…found that the Board’s claim construction was erroneous because it flouted the rule that claims should be given ‘their ordinary meaning in the context of the claim and the whole patent ...

Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs. In the past, ...

Russian state-backed hackers have stepped up their game with new malware families that hide behind fake CAPTCHA tests. The group, known as Star Blizzard or ColdRiver, now uses ClickFix attacks to ...

As I browse the web in 2025, I rarely encounter captchas anymore. There’s no slanted text to discern. No image grid of stoplights to identify. And on the rare occasion that I am asked to complete some ...

Conservative influencer Robby Starbuck is suing Google after he alleged that its artificial intelligence-powered chatbot falsely linked him to a sexual assault allegation as well as to notorious white ...