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There is no Altweibersommer this year, judging by how fast I’ve had to deploy my sweaters and coats once the Fall equinox took its rightful seat on the throne the earth and, because it has to, decreed ...

Was a drone strike on Yandex's data centers behind the drop off in bot activity? A new report breaks it down. Credit: Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images Ukrainian drones struck data centers ...

In early October, a claim (archived) circulated that Ukrainian strikes on Russian bot farms caused right-wing or MAGA social media activity to decrease. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that a Ukrainian bombing ...

Yandex's automated traffic fell by 94%, but that probably reflects widespread service outages rather than bot posting rates. Reading time 3 minutes The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war has mixed the ...

Ukraine has launched a series of drone strikes over the past week that have knocked multiple Russian data centers offline, resulting in internet bot traffic from the country dropping to almost zero.

The glass facade of the headquarters of Yandex NV, Russia's largest search-engine company, Credit: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images Russia's army of bots is apparently offline. At least, that ...

At least, not the troll traffic that blights social media. At least, not the troll traffic that blights social media. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture ...

Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the ...

Maybe I read it somewhere or it came to me as a revelation, but growing older has come to mean having to give up certain aspects, habits and customs in my life. For example, my diet has changed, ...

After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from ...