New anti-bot penalty: Twitch will cap concurrent viewers for channels caught repeatedly using viewbots, basing limits on past authentic traffic. Why it matters: Viewbotting distorts competition, ...

Twitch is rolling out a new enforcement mechanism designed to penalize streamers who persistently inflate their concurrent ...

If you thought the rivalry between Twitch and Kick couldn’t get any pettier, Edward Craven just raised the bar. The Kick co-founder is currently taking shots at Twitch’s latest attempt to solve its ...

I’m going to start and end this with a call for us all to just be nice. There’s enough nonsense going on in the world without piling on to people we don’t know, about things that ultimately mean ...

Late last month, a large crowd gathered in downtown San Francisco to demand that the AI industry stop developing more powerful bots. Holding signs and banners reading Stop the AI Race and Don’t Build ...

TL;DR: Reddit is introducing new measures to label bots and verify human users, aiming to curb automation on a platform that has become a popular hub for automated accounts. The company announced a ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

Modern fraud attacks look like a relay race where different tools and actors handle each stage of the journey from signup to cash-out. When you only inspect one signal at a time, such as IP or email, ...

Human verification ‘will be rare and will not apply to most users,’ according to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman. Human verification ‘will be rare and will not apply to most users,’ according to Reddit CEO ...

Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window-cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now. While many companies are trying to ...

Twitch Restream Bot is A Python script that automatically starts a restream of a Twitch stream using OBS. It uses Twitch's to detect if a channel is live and OBS's Websocket Plugin to send the ...

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