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Bots fail to live up to Turing Test - again
News Artificial Intelligence (AI) 'bots' still have a lot of evolving to do before they can successfully impersonate human behaviour in a chatroom, according to the results of this year's Loebner Prize Contest in AI.
[October 22, 2003, 14:35]
Bots snarl sites as shoppers seek PlayStation 2
News So-called shopping bots, programs that repeatedly log on to Web sites to help people search for prices or products, have contributed to some recently stalled or crashed Web stores. I like the bots; they scream consumer empowerment," said Forrester...
[December 8, 2000, 11:54]
Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
White Papers Some bots have replicative mechanisms, so also meet the definition of a worm or mass mailer, whereas others rely for propagation on external mechanisms such as spamming. Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Bots: AI Battlefront
Downloads Bots: AI Battlefront is a game that lets you program tank-like vehicles with Artificial Intelligence (AI) that controls them on a 3D battlefield. Following your instructions, your bots can move, look around, fire at enemies and obstacles, and even...
[April 12, 2007, 12:46]
Chat 'bots' may be hacker tool
News The traffic surge relates to an increase in the use of IRC bots by the file-sharing community to swap files and pirated software across the Internet. An international network monitoring group has alerted corporate Australia to a growing file...
[May 10, 2002, 10:55]
The Evolution of Malicious IRC Bots
White Papers This paper will examine the core features of popular IRC bots and track their evolution from a single code base. This analysis will demonstrate how many of the common IRC bots such as Agobot, Randex, Spybot, and Phatbot actually share common source...
[January 4, 2006, 0:01]
New generation of shopping 'bots swarms in
News Shopping "bots" and recommendation engines may be a boon to online bargain shoppers, but they can be a bane to merchants fighting eroding profit margins. So much so, in fact, that some merchants have barred the automated systems, which crawl the...
[August 16, 1999, 13:27]
Encrypted bots could be the next threat
News In the near future, bots will include encryption to hide their presence from security and network sniffing tools often used to detect them, said Adam Meyers, an information assurance engineer at SRA International speaking at the Computer Security...
[November 15, 2005, 9:55]
Cosmo Bots
Downloads Cosmo Bots takes its cue from the addictive classics Jezzball and Qix. However, that's where the similarity ends, because Cosmo Bots has different shapes for each level, 3D rendered graphics, digital sound, new enemies, and tons of power-ups.
[February 17, 2005, 15:37]
Bots fail to live up to Turing Test - again
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[February 2, 2006, 6:23]
Encrypted bots could be the next threat
Talkback Is this a joke? Please tell me this article is an early/late April Fool's joke. I mean really - let's be somewhat grounded here. Worms that act in a "retarded" but mass effort haven't _commonly_ used encryption for the past 5 years or so (some of...
[November 15, 2005, 17:29]
New bots a shopper's best friend
News Instead, their bots accompany you around the Net and suggest alternatives when you're ready to buy. DealPilot and Dash.com both launched browser-based shopping "bots" last week, and iChoose is developing a plug-in that will go live later this month.
[November 12, 1999, 9:48]
HP puts bots in the boardroom
News Why travel on business when you can send your robot double? That's the idea behind Hewlett-Packard Laboratories' "travel robot". A team made up mostly of former Compaq Computer researchers has built the gadget that allows a distant colleague to be...
[May 27, 2003, 8:30]
News Burst: Shopping bots, intelligent at last
News DealPilot, as the company is now known, will launch its DealPilot Express service, a browser plug-in that lets users check competing prices -- complete with shipping, taxes and any duties -- at the click of a button.
[November 1, 1999, 7:37]
Buzzing bots behave like bees
News Swarming robots that can act in concert and mimic the behaviour of bees have netted James McLurkin, a 30-year-old doctoral candidate in computer science, the annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. McLurkin's robots are programmed to cluster, disperse...
[February 27, 2003, 10:06]
Spammers use free porn to bypass Hotmail protection
News Spammers are bypassing a security protection that is designed to stop automated bots from automatically opening Web mail accounts, by offering humans access to free porn. But because of the sheer quantity of emails that are sent, spammers require...
[May 6, 2004, 18:00]
Thunder Chat
Downloads Thunder is a Battle.net chat client for the Macintosh, featuring standard chat concepts established by various Windows9x Battle.net chat bots. Have you ever noticed that loads of people you run into are using Windows9x chat bots?
[January 27, 2001, 7:00]
Nano Tech In The Extreme.
Blog Comment The real point here is, what will power the bots? We're still miles away from having nanobots strip harmful materials from landfill waste atom by atom and reassembling them into useful materials or using bots to form and construct a brick!
[September 29, 2008, 3:58]
Bot herders go low key
News Malicious makers of bots are finding big is not always better when it comes to avoiding detection, according to a security expert. Over the past two years, the average network of bots, or compromised PCs commandeered by remote attackers, has...
[November 18, 2005, 10:10]
China leads Asia in malicious online activity
News According to Symantec's biannual internet security threat report released on Wednesday, China topped the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, in malicious activity, producing the most malicious code, spam zombies, bots and attacks between 1...
[September 20, 2007, 8:25]
