Michael Anthony Bitoon is a news writer and software developer who loves technology, data, and video games. A recent graduate of the University of the Philippines Visayas, where he earned his Compu ...

The bot uses Mineflayer to join your Minecraft server as a fake player. It moves around, swings its arm, and does small random actions so the server does not detect it as idle. If it gets kicked or ...

A native Horizon mod (Minecraft 26.3, Horizon Nightly 2026-11-01, c9d474d) that is a client for the Simple Voice Chat protocol. It uses the same protocol as the Java mod, so on any server with the ...

Ukraine's CCD says suspected Russian bot posts in its sample fell 83.6% on October 8 after a strike shut Yandex's Sasovo data center The same data shows volume back above pre-strike levels by October ...

In brief: A Bloomberg News investigation revealed that the Russian state-backed disinformation operation “Matryoshka” is deploying automated bot farms to inflate view counts of AI-generated videos ...

Five 'pure-play' AI-managed ETFs manage only $30 million so far Mercer survey shows 91% of asset managers plan to use more AI portfolio tools this year Most asset managers deploying AI to help only ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine the perfect personal assistant. It spends the night haggling over your broadband bill, shifting your ...

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 ...

A 16-foot Burmese python weighing 147.9 pounds was included in a US Geological Survey test of drone technology being evaluated for tracking invasive snakes in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem. In ...

Scientists tracking invasive Burmese pythons in southern Florida recorded four cases of implanted tracking devices being expelled during a study spanning 2005 to 2024. The study examined 305 ...

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 ...

When Ukraine struck three data centres owned by the Russian technology and AI company Yandex over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy initially said the attacks had resulted in a ...