YouTube employees admitted that their goal was “viewer addiction” and killed proposed safety tools for kids because they wouldn’t provide a sufficient “ROI” — financial lingo for “return on investment ...

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Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to ...

Behind the scenes at Wikipedia, some editors were alarmed recently when they saw a flurry of edits and new articles by a contributor known as TomWikiAssist. It turned out that Tom was a bot and was ...

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That gap between what enterprises need to automate and what their orchestration tools can handle is the overlooked AI ...

Streamer ExtraEmily faces scrutiny after an on-stream mishap raised concerns about potential view-botting.