Reddit CEO Steve Huffman caused a stir when he told a tech show that the platform was considering some form of ID verification to combat bots. Now Huffman has officially addressed the issues in a ...

United States, April 13, 2026 -- not.bot, a digital identity verification platform developed by Julia Social, has introduced a new approach to online authentication designed to ad ...

Bots get a bad rap, but they’re not all bad. Without web crawlers, for example, search engines couldn’t index new content on the internet. But what is bad is when verification providers, including ...

Persona helps companies like OpenAI, LinkedIn and Reddit verify the identities of millions of users at a time when AI agents have made it increasingly difficult to do so. Now, it has $200 million in ...

It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help to weed out the bots (aka ...

Now robots are doing the human. Artificial intelligence has become so sophisticated that it’s apparently no longer distinguishable from its human counterparts. The newest generation of ChatGPT has ...

Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots on the “Change My View” subreddit. The ...

Sam Altamns's Tools for Humanity launched World ID 4.0, an enhanced, open-source human verification protocol. This upgrade ...

The World project looks to offer an alternative method to existing bot prevention measures such as CAPTCHA and facial ...

In recent years, public trust in the media has plummeted to unprecedented lows. This crisis of confidence is largely attributed to the contrasting natures of traditional media and social media. While ...

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, ...