Neowin News Feed for: Bot

Mystery bots on Spotify modifying playlists to boost 'unknown' artists and their numbers

Alap Naik Desai — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:36:01 +0000

Several Spotify users are suffering from bots that appear as normal accounts, but randomly remove songs from collaborative playlists and insert content from relatively unknown artists. Read more...

Adding a label to a Twitter bot will automatically exempt it from audits

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 05:32:01 +0000

Twitter will now allow developers who use the Twitter API to label their bots as "Automated". The label could help inspire trust, but the opt-in method seems open to misuse by bad bots. Read more...

New Wordlinator Twitter bot aims to discourage Wordle bragging

Paul Hill — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:16:01 +0000

A Twitter bot called The Wordlinator has been replying to Wordle result tweets today with a comment providing the answer to tomorrow's Wordle puzzle in a bid to get people to stop "bragging". Read more...

Gift Card scams involving web-crawling bots rising exponentially, but can you avoid them?

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:22:01 +0000

As customers shop online, gift card scams have gone up substantially. Scammers are even using WebCrawler bots to extract money, which means people might be gifting cards with zero balance Read more...

Bot Framework Composer is a new open-source tool by Microsoft for visual bot development

Abhishek Baxi — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:00:31 +0000

Bot Framework Composer is an open-source tool for visual bot development. The tool is available as a desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux as well as a web-based component. Read more...

DoNotPay's 'chatbot lawyer' now offers legal help in all 50 US states

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:24:01 +0000

DoNotPay, a popular legal website providing advice across a thousand different categories courtesy of its chatbot, has now rolled out its free service to cover the whole of the United States. Read more...

Google releases reCAPTCHA API for Android devices

Muhammad Zaid Tariq — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:40:01 +0000

Google has released the Android API of its reCAPTCHA technology, so developers can implement security services for users on mobile devices, and provide them with a streamlined user experience. Read more...

An adventure in space and time: BBC Worldwide launches a Doctor Who game bot on Skype

Rich Woods — Thu, 04 May 2017 18:22:01 +0000

Microsoft and BBC Worldwide announced today that it's bringing a new Doctor Who game bot to Skype, called The Saviour of Time. There are also five new Doctor Who-themed Mojis that you can use. Read more...

Google kills off CAPTCHA, might determine if you're a robot by your browsing activities

Usama Jawad — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:36:01 +0000

It appears that Google is finally killing off CAPTCHA in text and the checkbox saying "I'm not a robot" for legitimate users, instead using "a broad range of cues that distinguish humans from bots". Read more...

Skype's plans for 2017? Bots, bots and even more bots

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:26:02 +0000

Skype is looking forward to next year and the expansion of the bot platform baked inside of the popular communications service. In 2017, a huge number of ever-more impressive bots are set to launch. Read more...

Microsoft's Azure Bot Services make it easy to build your own bot

Boyd Chan — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:20:01 +0000

Leading on from the launch of its Bot Framework earlier this year, Microsoft has announced the launch of Azure Bot Service, representing the world's first cloud bot solution. Read more...

Microsoft preparing its bots for the public; takes dev submissions for Bot Directory

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 04 May 2016 07:28:01 +0000

Microsoft is getting ready to unveil its Bot Directory, a repository of all the public bots developed using its Bot Framework tools. This is where users can enable bots in their conversations. Read more...

7 Days: A week of Building Windows 10, Bots, Holograms and 'Almost Perfect' Galaxys

Vlad Dudau — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:52:01 +0000

It's been a pretty crazy and exciting week in the world of tech as Microsoft held its biggest developer conference of the year. We saw holograms, talked to bots, and caught up with technology. Read more...

@everyword completes tweeting the entire dictionary

James Walker — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 13:44:11 +0000

The automated Twitter account @everyword has finally completed the task it began in 2007 tweeting out every single word in the dictionary one-by-one. Read more...

CAPTCHA technology could become a thing of the past

Phi Ha — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:29:54 +0000

Your favourite band is touring and you know tickets will sell out in an instant, so every second counts. But there is only one thing in the way, and it threatens to make your life miserable. Read more...

Researchers know your Facebook secrets by using 'socialbots'

Paul Ferson — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:29:04 +0000

Researchers made use of 'socialbots', using them to harvest large amounts of information from the world's biggest social network, showing just how much information we share unknowingly. Read more...

The latest weather in 140 characters

Andrew Fairbairn — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:23:15 +0000

Love it or hate it, Twitter is becoming an increasingly popular website. However it's not just about what your friends are eating for breakfast or watching on YouTube, Twitter can also be a very useful... Read more...

Zombie network explosion

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:11:50 +0000

The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months, according to figures from the Shadowserver Foundation. Shadowserver tracks botnet activity and the number of command and control servers.... Read more...